Technical irrigation field area reach 6,757 ha and non technical irrigation reach 809 ha. Agriculture area reaches 5,524,725 ha or equal with 70% total of South Sumatera region’s width. Nevertheless, paddy area in this province in 2005 reaches 626,849 ha with production amount 2,320,110 tons. From that production amount, about 171,928 tons comes from dry soil production with area’s width 73,504 ha. Regency with the highest area’s width and paddy production are Ogan Komering Ilir and Ogan Komering Timur.

Now immortal rice field area is 752,150 ha, consist of 399,521 ha or 55% irrigation rice field area, 113,655 ha or 15% rise and fall rice field area, lowlands rice field area and wet rice field, and the left 238,974 ha or 30% is rice field area which is not planted yet.

Plantation is spreaded out widely. In 2005, plantation reach 26,884 ha with production 75,556 tons and cassava plantation reach 4,432 ha with production 179,952 tons. Sweet potato plant’s width 3,379 tons, scallion plantation 330 ha with production amount 27,748 tons, cabbage with production 49,930 tons, mustard greens 770 ha with production amount 68,799 tons.

South Sumatera is famous for fruits production especially lanseh tree, durian, pineapple, and banana. Lanseh tree plantation’s width reach 3,851 ha with production 62,226 tons, durian plantation 40,486 ha with production total 29,000 tons. Nevertheless, many lanseh tree and durian are old so that it should be replanted. Pineapple plantation reach 4,670 ha and its production total is 513,858 tons. Besides that, avocado plantation is spreaded out on the 275 ha land with production 1,852 tons, star fruit plantation 95 ha produce 1,786 tons, guava plantation 311 ha produce 13,085 tons, the rose-apple plantation 834 ha produce 15,442 tons, orange plantation 7,003 ha produce 2,660,363 tons, mangosteen plantation 763 ha produce 2,286 tons, and jackfruit plantation 1,484 ha with production 18,681 tons.

This province also has plantation resource 1,878,983 ha that is populace’s and company’s plantation, consist of rubber, oil palm, sugar palm, coffee, coconut, pepper plantation and other plantation with production total 4,040,150 tons. There are four dominant commodities; those are oil palm, rubber, coffee, and coconut. Those four commodities are spreaded out almost in all regencies/ cities. The ownership of populace's plantation is still dominant compared to company’s and others’ property. Rubber production area is 1.2 million ha, followed oil palm production 1.1 million ha. For the last 20 year, the rate of growth of all components hard work that is active in its field.

In oceanic and fishery sector, inhabitants who wrestle with this sector reach 115,388 fishery households. Fishery percentage is gotten from fish cultivation crop (56.18%), general waters (39.31%), and sea fishery (4.51%). Fishery development is stressed on cultivation fishery development, included in it pasca harvest, which in 2005 reach 88,945.5 tons.

Poultry production crop from meat, milk, and eggs is in progress year to year. In 2005, beef, buffalo meat, goat meat, pork, and meat reach 44,676 tons, whereas fresh milk production reach 277,000 liters, egg production 46,183 tons.

SSP is not inferior to other province in preserving forest, a work that must be responded positively, forest’s width reach 4,416,837 ha or 40.43% from total of province region’s width, consist of conservation forest area 714,416 ha (16.17%), protected forest 760,523 ha (17%), and production forest 2,941,898 ha (66.61%).

This province has big mining potential, such as petroleum reserve 5.03 billion barrels (10% cl) or 5,032,992 matrick stock tank barrels. Petroleum reserve is produced with growth 10% per year and can be held out 60 years. Whereas coal reserve is estimated 16,953,615,000 tons or 60% national reserve. General mining work area’s width reach 1,030,128.75 ha, with oil and gas mining 2,243,120.15 ha.

Source: Indonesia Tanah Airku (2007).