Agricultural Land Use Statistics of Gorontalo Province 2018

As an agricultural area, the role of this sector is also supported by an agricultural system development program that is implemented and community participation (farmers), both intensification and extensification. Extensification program (area expansion) is very influential on the area of ​​cultivated agricultural land, which consists of rice field area and the area of ​​agricultural land not rice fields. The area of ​​Gorontalo Province's rice fields in 2018 is only 2.69 percent of the total land area, while the area of ​​non-rice fields is 78.84 percent. From the Agricultural Survey Land Use produced data on raw land area consisting of rice fields, the area of ​​agricultural land not rice fields and the area of ​​non-agricultural land. The area of rice fields is divided into two, irrigated rice fields and non-irrigated rice fields. Non-irrigated rice fields are detailed, namely: rainfed lowland, tidal swamp rice fields and swampy wetland fields. Whereas what is meant by non-rice farming land is land, fields / huma, land that is temporarily not cultivated, plantations, ponds, ponds / others and so on. The area of ​​non-agricultural land covers the area of ​​a house, a building and a yard, a state forest, a swamp that is not planted, etc.