Spatial pattern of paddy fields and rice mills in Mande, Karangtengah and Cilaku Districts, Cianjur Regency, West Java, Indonesia

Abstract

Cianjur Regency is one of granary area in West Java Province which produces an average of 847,741 tons/year and ranks 5-7th at West Java Province during 2010-2015. This rice production should to be supported with rice milling infrastructure to convert paddy to rice. In general, location and number of rice mills are related to location and area of paddy field because they need each other. Objectives are to analysis spatial pattern of paddy fields and rice mills using nearest neighbor distance and relationship between area of paddy fields and number of rice mills using regresion. Results show that spatial pattern of paddy fields in Mande, Karangtengah, Cilaku District are clustered, disparsed, clustered, respectively. This difference is due to topography, where land with hilly or mountainous topography, the spatial pattern of paddy fields is clustered on flat land. The spatial pattern of rice mills in Mande, Karangtengah, Cilaku District are clustered, clustered, disparsed, respectively. This rice mill is located along the road, therefore rice mills are clustered on tight road, flat topography and around the paddy fields. The relationship between area of paddy fields and number of rice mills in Mande and Cilaku Districts are strong (r2 = 0.62, r2 = 0.64), while Cilaku District is sufficient (r2 = 0.37).