Harvest Area and Rice Production in Kepulauan Bangka Belitung Province 2023

The availability of timely and accurate agricultural data is the foundation for realizing agricultural policies that are right on target. Since 2018, BPS has collaborated with the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (LAPAN) which has now merged into the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (Ministry of ATR/ BPN), as well as the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) are trying to improve the methodology for calculating rice harvest area through the application of objective measurements by utilizing advances in information and communication technology and the availability of high resolution satellite imagery. This collaboration was realized in an activity entitled "Integrated Food Crop Agricultural Statistics Data Collection Using the Area Sample Frame (KSA) Method" or better known as the KSA Survey. Apart from producing an estimate of the harvested area, the KSA Survey also provides an overview of other rice cultivation phases, such as the area of ​​the early vegetative, late vegetative, generative phases, the potential for crop failure, the area of ​​agricultural land fallow, and the area of ​​agricultural land planted with crops other than rice.