How Bali’s rice production is measured: harvested area versus output

Bali’s rice output is measured through harvested area and production, not by treating every rice-field statistic as land conversion. BPS reported 96,444 hectares of rice harvested in 2025 and 587,866.28 tonnes of rice production for the year, while official agricultural data separately tracks production by province.

What does Bali’s rice data measure?

Harvested area counts the area harvested during a year, while rice production counts the resulting output. BPS published Bali’s fixed 2025 harvested-area and rice-production figures on February 2, 2026, according to the search result citing the BPS release.

The distinction matters because harvested area is not automatically the same as the permanent physical area of paddy parcels. A field can be harvested more than once, and annual totals can change with cultivation conditions.

How much rice did Bali produce?

The Agriculture Ministry’s BDSP database records Bali’s 2025 rice production at 587,866.28 tonnes, compared with 635,473.35 tonnes in 2024, a change of -7.49%, according to the ministry database, 2026.

BPS’s 2025 release records 96,444 hectares of harvested rice area, compared with 103,804 hectares in 2024, according to BPS, 2026. These figures describe annual harvesting and output; they do not by themselves establish how much land was converted to buildings.

Does a smaller harvested area prove rice fields were built over?

No. The figures show that harvested area changed, but they do not identify the cause of every change. Weather, cropping patterns, planting decisions and other cultivation conditions can affect the annual harvested-area total.

A property-sector explainer published by Novasia Estate, 2026, makes the same measurement distinction: its discussion of the BPS figures says the difference in harvested area should not be read as proof that the area became villas.

Why are these numbers useful?

For tourism, planning and food-security questions, the figures provide two different signals: harvested area describes annual agricultural activity, while production describes the rice output recorded for Bali. They should not be substituted for a cadastral or zoning series showing permanent land-use change.

The Ministry of Agriculture’s database lists Bali’s production for 2021 at 618,910.81 tonnes, 2022 at 680,601.60 tonnes, 2023 at 673,580.65 tonnes, 2024 at 635,473.35 tonnes and 2025 at 587,866.28 tonnes, according to BDSP, 2026.

Sources

• BPS-Statistics Indonesia, Bali Province
• Ministry of Agriculture of Indonesia, BDSP
• Novasia Estate