Harvest Area and Rice Production in Nusa Tenggara Barat 2021 (Results of Integrated Food Crops Agricultural Statistics Data Collection with Area Sample Framework Method)

The availability of timely and accurate agricultural data is the foundation for being able to realize 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 Institute (LAPAN) which is now merged into the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), the Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning / National Land Agency (Ministry of ATR / BPN), as well as the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) seeks to improve the methodology of calculating rice harvested area through the application of objective measurement by utilizing advances in information technology and communication as well as the availability of high-resolution satellite imagery. The collaboration was manifested in an activity entitled "Data Collection of Agricultural Statistics of Food Crops Integrated with the Area Sample 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. Field observations Of the KSA Survey are carried out on the last 7 (seven) days of each month. Based on the results of the KSA Survey, in 2021, the rice harvest area reached around 276.21 thousand hectares or an increase of 2.75 thousand hectares (1.01 percent) compared to 2020. Meanwhile, rice production in 2021 was 1419.56 thousand tons of GKG. If converted into rice, rice production in 2021 reached around 808.51 thousand tons, or an increase of 58.30 thousand tons (7.77 percent) compared to rice production in 2020. In addition to producing an estimate of the harvest area, the KSA Survey also provides an overview of other very rice phases, such as the area of the initial vegetative phase, the final vegetative, generative, potential crop failure, the area of agricultural land that is lighted, and the area of agricultural land planted with crops other than rice.