Arabica coffee plantation

Arabica coffee plantation

JAMBI (Antara): The Jambi plantation service has encouraged
farmers to grow Arabica coffee, which has bright domestic as well
as foreign market prospects, an official of the provincial
administration said here Tuesday.

Head of Jambi plantation service, Amrie Ramli, said that
coffee a highland plantation crop, was cultivated in the upland
plains of Kerinci and Sarolangun Bangko districts and most of the
coffee cultivated in these districts was of the Robusta variety.

Data from the Jambi plantation service shows that the total
coffee cultivated area in Jambi has at present reached 25,565
hectares with a production of 4,889 tons.

Due to a severe attack of clove pests most of the clove trees
in the upland plains of Jambi have been cut down and replaced by
other plantation crops such as rubber and coffee.

The availability of more land is a very favorable opportunity
to grow more coffee, particularly Arabica coffee which is much in
demand in the foreign market, Ramli said.