Can Jambi City Increase Its Rice Production Again?

Food is the most important basic need that must be met for every individual.

Food unavailability can have an impact on economic stability shocks.

This makes the importance of food availability in the community.

In Indonesia, the availability of food is identical with the availability of rice, because rice is the main staple food in Indonesia.

Due to the consideration of the importance of the availability of rice in Indonesia, the government always tries to maintain the consistency of its availability in the community.

However, in practice, efforts to fulfill these basic needs are left to the community.

The government plays a role in maintaining the circulation of food is not monopolized in certain places.

To maintain food availability, one of the government's efforts is to provide raw land for rice fields that can be planted by the community to meet food needs, especially rice.

The city of Jambi itself does not have a large area of ​​raw rice fields, only an area of ​​520.33 hectares or about 0.76 percent of the area of ​​raw rice fields in Jambi Province (SK Mentri ATR/Head of BPN No. 686/SK-PG.03.03/XII/ 2019).

Of the 520.33 ha of raw paddy fields, the people of Jambi City still have not maximized the amount of rice production in the existing paddy fields.

This is indicated by the Jambi City's rice harvest area in 2021 which is only 358 hectares, decreased by 42.96