 About 50% of Indonesian workers are engaged in agriculture, which accounts for 20% of GDP. Over 80 million acres are under cultivation, with up to 40% of the cultivated land devoted to the production of export crops such as: Rice, cassava (tapioca), peanuts, rubber, cocoa, coffee, palm oil. With over 60% of the country's cultivated agriculture land is in Java, Indonesia.
Main types of farming: smallholder farming (mostly rice), smallholder cash cropping, and about 1,800 large foreign-owned or privately owned estates, the latter two producing export crops. |
