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        "msgid": "rice-output-to-drop-this-year-bps-says-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-02-19 00:00:00",
        "title": "Rice output to drop this year: BPS says",
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        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Rice output to drop this year: BPS says The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) predicted on Monday that the country's unhusked rice output would drop by 1.89 percent to 48.65 million tons this year, down from 49.56 million tons last year due to a decline in the area under rice. \"It is estimated that the area of paddy fields to be harvested in 2002 will fall 3.02 percent to 10.99 million hectares,\" it said in a prepared statement for the press.",
        "content": "<p>Rice output to drop this year: BPS says<\/p>\n<p>The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) predicted on Monday<br>\nthat the country's unhusked rice output would drop by 1.89<br>\npercent to 48.65 million tons this year, down from 49.56 million<br>\ntons last year due to a decline in the area under rice.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is estimated that the area of paddy fields to be harvested<br>\nin 2002 will fall 3.02 percent to 10.99 million hectares,\" it<br>\nsaid in a prepared statement for the press.<\/p>\n<p>A BPS official warned however that the drop in the rice output<br>\ncould be larger as the projection did not take account of the<br>\nimpact of the recent floods.<\/p>\n<p>\"Generally, rice output in the January - April period<br>\ncontributes 48.7 percent to total rice production. The current<br>\nfloods will have a major effect on this year's total output but<br>\nwe haven't calculated what it will be yet,\" the BPS's deputy<br>\ndirector for balance and statistical analysis Kusumadi Saleh<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture said earlier this month that the<br>\ncountry's worst floods in decades had inundated some 120,000<br>\nhectares of paddy fields and damaged almost 300,000 tons of<br>\nunhusked rice.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry had earlier targeted Indonesia's 2002 unhusked<br>\nrice output at 52 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>The BPS said that last year's rice production decreased by<br>\n4.45 percent to 49.59 million tons from 51.9 million tons in 2000<br>\nbecause of the decrease in the area under rice and lower<br>\nproductivity.<\/p>\n<p>The BPS explained that the area under rice decreased by 3.91<br>\npercent to 11.33 million hectares last year from 11.79 million<br>\nhectares in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The agency added that productivity decreased 0.57 percent to<br>\n4.37 tons per hectare from 4.4 tons per hectare in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The BPS also forecast that the country's corn output would<br>\nincrease by 1.22 percent to 9.28 million tons in 2002, up from<br>\n9.17 million tons in 2001, due to an increase in productivity and<br>\nthe area planted.<\/p>\n<p>The country's soybean production is estimated to rise to<br>\n910,000 tons this year from 820,000 tons in 2001 due to an<br>\nexpansion in area under soybeans.<\/p>",
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