Executive Summary Paddy Harvested Area and Production in Papua Tengah Province 2024 (Final Figures)

Food crop statistics have a strategic role in agriculture. It is used by government
to determine the direction of development policies in Indonesia, primarily
related to food fulfillment. The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS collects data on
paddy harvested areas every month through the Area Sampling Frame (ASF)
survey, which is a collaborative activity between BPS with the Agency for the
Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) and the National Institute of
Aviation and Space (LAPAN) which is 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), and the Geospatial
Information Agency (BIG). Meanwhile, yield data, which is the multiplier of
harvested area to produce paddy production data, is obtained through the
crop-cutting Survey