REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Statistics Indonesia (BPS) noted that the number of Indonesian farmers has continued to decline since 2013. Currently, the number of farmers in Indonesia is only 29.3 million farmers. Down 7.45 percent from 2013 which reached 31 million farmers.

BPS Secretary Atqo Mardiyanto said, although the number of Individual Agricultural Enterprises (UTP) has decreased over the past decade, the number of Household Agricultural Enterprises (RTUP) has increased by 8.74 percent. Currently there are 28.4 million RTUPs in Indonesia.

"The number of agricultural companies with legal entities has also increased by 35 percent since 2013. Currently there are 5,705 agricultural business units with legal entities," said Atqo in Jakarta, Monday (4/12/2023).

The largest number of Individual Agricultural Business Units is in East Java Province with 5.6 million farmers. Meanwhile, in DKI Jakarta there are currently only 13 thousand farmers.

The decline in the number of farmers is also accompanied by a decline in agricultural productivity in Indonesia. In 2022 alone, agricultural productivity will not reach IDR 40 million per farm in one year. This is also due to the lack of desire of people to work in the agricultural sector. 

The number of informal workers is higher in the agricultural sector, up to 88 percent. Until February 2023, the number of workers absorbed in the agricultural sector was only 29.36 percent of the new workforce in the 2022-2023 time period.

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