Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Ministry of Agriculture said the country`s rice grand harvests on 5.5 million hectares of rice fields in the January - April 2011 period were estimated to produce 27.203 million tons of unhulled rice (GKG).

Food Crops Director General Udhoro Kasih Anggoro said here on Monday that the estimated production of 27.203 million tons accounted for 35 percent of the country`s production target in 2011 which totaled 70.5 million tons of GKG.

"The harvests are calculated based on a production estimate that one hectare would produce 50.52 quintals in a relatively wet climate condition like now," he said.(*)

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