Analysis of Agricultural Land Area Availability to Attain the Food Sovereignty in West Java Province of Indonesia

Abstract

The high growth of population in West Java Province of Indonesia is the main problem in the development of food security. This condition suggests the importance of food compliance to attain the food sovereignty in West Java province. This study applies the descriptive and comparative methods to proceed all secondary data from various institutions. The purpose of this study is (1) to analyze the fulfillment of food agricultural area of the existed agricultural potential, (2) to analyze the needs of the food agricultural land area to attain the food compliance of West Java province's residents in the period of 2020-2045. The result of the study shows potential of agricultural land in West Java amounted to 1,266,280.86 hectares, which corresponds to the allotment of paddy fields, dry land farming, mix dry land agriculture, plantation and community forests. The need of paddy rice production to fulfill the food consumption of the population of West Java in 2020, 2025, 2030 and 2045 is 7,876,828 tons, 8,329,519 tons, 8,787,642 tons and 9,446,716 tons with a population of 49,211,248 persons, 52,039,478 persons, 54,901,649 persons and 59,019,273 persons. The broad needs of paddy fields in West Java province in 2030 and 2045 in order to meet the food requirement are 1,417,362 hectares and 1,226,846 hectares.