Indonesia is a country rich in natural
resources in Southeast Asia.
Its agricultural production is the key to the economy of Indonesia which
contributes 15% to the GDP, and the farm labor accounts for up to 43% of total employment.
To facilitate the sustainable agricultural development, Indonesia
government has invested more than 7 million US dollars annually in launching diverse
grant-in-aid projects.
With the mission of
establishing and operating policies in agriculture fields, Ministry of Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia
(MoA) is responsible for developing a fair trading system in agricultural
commodities and enhancing agriculture production through providing agriculturists
with proper funding, seeds, insecticide, etc.
To obtain
and manage spatial information of each farmland correctly, MoA developed an Agriculture
Field Survey System with SuperGIS mapping solutions that are available in
mobile devices, desktop, and server applications to help the MoA personnel maximize
field productivity, perform data editing and analysis, as well as integrate and
share the latest spatial data and GIS services across the sector.
The
Agriculture Field Survey System allows MoA to overcome
the disadvantages of the traditional paper-and-pencil survey mode, complete
data collection of crop types and conditions, and perform precise measurement
of farmland size in each district. As a result, the agency could effectively manage
the farmlands and crops, reduce cost of unnecessary waste of resources, and formulate
feasible funding and agricultural development plans with accurate and
up-to-date data.
In
this project, the desktop GIS software customized by SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a helps MoA easily visualize and analyze
field data, ensuring that the integrated agricultural data can be updated and
managed through enterprise geodatabase. Besides, server GIS also serves as a
full-function platform for data synchronization, management, and sharing.
Therefore, the cost of data duplication and
storage could be significantly reduced.
As
for data capture, the Agriculture Field Survey System developed by SuperPad
3.1, the professional mobile GIS, enables surveyors throughout the country to smartly measure farmland areas, add
attributes, and take pictures for crops using mobile GIS and GPS tools. It also
ensures that newly collected agricultural data can be uploaded and well managed
on server, bringing MoA the real situation of fields, corps, and pesticides.
The comprehensive GIS
solutions built in SuperGIS software have assisted Indonesian government, like MoA
in making wise decisions on granting funding with scientific methods, as well
as promoting the efficiency in developing subsidy policies to improve the
national agricultural development.
