8,865.20 Hectare Sawah In Karawang Failed To Harvest Due To Flood Soak

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JABAR - Rice fields covering an area of 8,865.20 hectares experienced crop failure or puso due to flooding that occurred from February 25 to March 3, 2023.

"The puso rice fields consist of rice fields that are suitable and planted," said Head of Plantation and Plantation for the Karawang Agriculture and Food Security Service, Dadan Danny, in Karawang, West Java (West Java), Monday, March 13, as reported by Antara.

For the Semai rice fields that experienced puso reached 4,759.20 hectares. Meanwhile, the area that entered the planting period and experienced puso was due to flooding covering an area of 4,106.00 hectares.

"Usia tanaman semai yang terendam banjir hingga puso mencapai 1-20 hari dan yang tumbuh usia satu hari hingga menjelang panen," kata dia.

In accordance with the data collected, said Dadan, the flood submerged the rice fields from February 25 to March 3, 2023, and slowly began to recede from March 6, 2023.

He conveyed that actually the rice fields that were flooded were 12.6 thousand hectares, of the total area of rice fields in Karawang which reached 101,143.40 hectares.

However, according to data collection in the field, from the area of the submerged rice fields, an area of 8,865.20 hectares experienced puso, and about 3 thousand hectares of rice fields were submerged in a safe category.

"The land of about 3 thousand hectares is declared safe, because it can still be harvested and some are not yet present," he said.

It was stated that the rice fields that were submerged and experienced puso were spread over 30 sub-districts around Karawang.

For the puso rice fields, most of them occur in the Cilamaya Kulon, Tempuran, and Cilebar sub-districts.

According to him, the area of the submerged rice fields and experiencing puso has been reported to BNPB through BPBD Karawang.

Currently, the Karawang Agriculture and Food Security Service is recapitulating the CPCL (receivable candidate, potential location) data. This is related to the application for seed assistance which will be submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture.