LAND USE CATEGORY

The land use category in Wajo Regency in most cases is associated with the development programs, such as rural development, paddy field, irrigated agricultural, high land development, upland fields, estates, ranch, fish ponds, grass fields, and other community utilization. More than 84,500 ha of the land paddy fields, which are mostly under the rain fed condition? About 75% of the low land paddy fields are planted during the rainy season only, about 24.50% are planted with paddy and “palawija” or second crop during the dry season. The paddy fields in the northern part of Tempe Lake are under the simple irrigation system, taking its water from the Bila Rever, flowing to the lake then ended into the Bone Gulf. The total irrigated paddy fields for cattle breeding is about 34,600 ha.

The statistical figures of the land use category in Wajo Regency are as follows.
- recidential quarters 5,392 ha
- rice fields 85,555 ha
- upland crops 14,850 ha
- mixed crops 32,887 ha
- public estates 5,646 ha
- jungles 3,275 ha
- secondary forests 25,615 ha
- productive forests 4,050 ha
- grass fields 34,686 ha
- fish pounds 15,000 ha
- swamps 9,209 ha
- lake area 5,128 ha

the total use potentials for agriculture and other related commodity are estimated at about 206,000 ha, excluding the protected the following break down:
- paddy (single crop) 22,601 ha
- paddy (double crop) 8,528 ha
- paddy/second crop 52,954 ha
- vegetables/palawija 6,638 ha
- fruits/upland crops 27,894 ha
- permanent crops 12,392 ha
- cattle grazing 17,691 ha
- fisheries 29,062 ha
- intensified fish ponds 7,725 ha
- extension of fish ponds 7,000 ha
- lake/swamps 14,337 ha
- protected forests 34,040 ha