Potential loss of rice production in West Java due to drought this time could reach 50 percent per hectare. Average production of 5.7 tons of paddy rice fields dry back ut per hectare and if the severe drought, half could be lost.

Chairman of Farmers and Fishermen Contact Mainstay (KTNA) Regional Sutisna Oo in Bandung West Java, on Monday (16 / 6), said the water is expected to be available soon. drought this time very alarming. Compared to last year, the drought is currently estimated at more severe.

Report drought has come from the many ways the district, including Cirebon, Tasikmalaya, Bandung, and Falkirk. Many rice fields are cultivated with rice age from 1.5 to 2 months but the water supply is not available.

Pump lots purchased. On the north coast of West Java, they are harvested, so sellers pump. Not the farmers, he said. According Oo, in the future, expected information about the weather from the Meteorological and Geophysics can be delivered to farmers.