The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) predicted that Indonesia would achieve self-sufficiency in rice in 2008 because based on the estimate its rice production this year would increase by 3.12 million tons of unhusked rice (GKG) or about 5.56 percent of the production in 2007.Head of BPS Rusman Heriawan said here on Monday that the increase by five percent based on the estimate would raised national rice production to 60.28 million tons of GKG.
"With the estimate it is projected that Indonesia would become self-reliant in rice in 2008," he said adding that the 5.46 percent increase was something that happened rarely because usually the high increase was noted at three percent at the most.
He said that in the two consecutive years Indonesia`s rice production had been increasing extraordinarily where last year its rice production was recorded at 57.15 million tons of GKG. In 2006 it was only recorded at 54.45 million tons GKG.
Therefore, he said, it could be ascertained that Indonesia would become a rice self-reliant country this year if the big rice production realized and it no longer needed to import rice in the coming two years.
Heriawan said that Indonesia`s rice production increased because the acreage of harvestable rice increased by 195.98 thousand hectares or 1.16 percent and the rice productivity also increased by 170 kg per hectare or about 3.78 percent.
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