Harvested Area and Production of Rice in Gresik Regency 2019

The availability of timely and accurate agricultural data is the foundation for realizing targeted agricultural policies. Since 2018, BPS has collaborated with the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), supported by the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning / National Land Agency (Ministry of ATR / BPN), the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG), and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (LAPAN), trying to improve the methodology for calculating rice harvested areas through the application of objective measurements by utilizing advances in information and communication technology as well as the availability of high-resolution satellite images. This collaboration is manifested in an activity entitled "Data Collection of Integrated Food Crops Agricultural Statistics with the Area Sampling Framework (KSA) Method" or better known as the KSA Survey. The implementation of the KSA Survey for rice commodities began to be implemented nationally in 2018. Segment observations were carried out on the last 7 (seven) days of each month. The estimated harvest area from the 2019 KSA observations in Gresik Regency is 61,643.05 hectares. Meanwhile, the estimated rice production in Gresik Regency from January to December 2019 is 367,717.66 tonnes of Milled Dry Unhulled (GKG). If converted to rice with the conversion rate of GKG to rice in 2018, rice production in 2019 is estimated at 211,233.83 tons of rice.