The Agriculture Ministry wants to make Indonesia a leading prime coffee producer in the world by 2025, the ministry's plantation affairs director, Achmad Mangga Barani, said Wednesday (19\/3\/08), Antara reported.<\/p>\n
He said Indonesia now ranked fourth in the world as a coffee producer and exporter although its coffee plantation area was the second largest in the world.<\/p>\n
With a production of 792 kg of coffee per hectare annually, Indonesia is still well behind Colombia (1,220 kg\/ha\/year), Brazil (1,000 kg\/ha\/year) and Vietnam (1,540 kg\/ha\/year) in terms of productivity.<\/p>\n
\"Under the national coffee policy, a strategy is needed to make Indonesia a leading producer of prime coffee and coffee products in 2025,\" Barani said.<\/p>\n
Data at the Directorate General of Plantations showed Indonesia was currently growing Robusta coffee on 1.30 million hectares of land and Arabica coffee on 177,100 hectares with a total production of 682,158 tons, with 413,500 tons exported with a value of $586,877 in 2006.<\/p>\n
In 2007, national coffee production was recorded at 686,763 tons from 1.31 million hectares.<\/p>\n
Indonesia no longer exports coffee as raw material but processed products of a quality expected by consumers, Barani said.<\/p>\n
The government had decided to increase production of Robusta to 865,000 tons through improvement in productivity to 1,000 kg\/ha\/year until 2025. Export volumes would be increased to 505,000 tons.<\/p>\n
The government would enlarge the plantation area for Arabica coffee to 236,000 hectares and increase production to 193,000 tons from 81,000 tons and planting productivity to 1,200 kg\/ha\/year, with exports of 135,000 tons.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/boost-planned-for-coffee-1206406228", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }