Executive Summary of Paddy Harvested Area and Production in Sumatera Utara Province 2024

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.