I read two interesting blog posts at Brunei Resources on Brunei’s rice self-sufficiency targets. The posts discuss the state of rice imports, hovering at around 30,000 metric tonnes per annum and of the feasibility of Brunei reaching self-sufficiency of rices.
So I thought to run a short analytic on it … based on data From Brunei.fm and agriculture.gov.bn:
Current –> 884 metric tonnes of production vs. 1,356 hectares area under paddy 2008 = 0.65 tonnes per hectare
Short term goal 2010 (13 months from now) –> 5,800 metric tonnes of production vs. 2,360 hectares = 2.46 tonnes per hectare. [Note that the 2,360 hectares doesn't reconcile to 4,904 ha new + 1,356 ha existing land area on page 19 of the report]
Medium term goal 2015 (5 years from now) –> 18,000 metric tonnes of production vs. 5,360 hectares = 3.36 tonnes per hectare.
More analysis after the break: