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Government to develop coffee farming cooperatives, launch pilot project this year

Each of the cooperatives, which will be located in 17 provinces, will combine individual farmers’ holdings to form at least 100 hectares (ha) of managed land.

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Government to develop coffee farming cooperatives, launch pilot project this year Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Teten Masduki ('right') and non-governmental organization Sustainable Coffee Platform of Indonesia (SCOPI) chairman Irvan Helmi ('left') talk to the press after a public discussion in Jakarta on Jan. 30. (JP/Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman)

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he Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry is set to develop cooperatives for small scale coffee farmers in a bid to improve their productivity.

Each of the cooperatives, located in 17 provinces, will combine individual farmers’ holdings to form at least 100 hectares (ha) of managed land. The government will begin the pilot project this year in partnership with non-governmental organization Sustainable Coffee Platform of Indonesia (SCOPI).

The two entities are still in talks to develop a plan and to find a location for the program to be launched.

"Our problem stems from the limited land owned by individual farmers, which makes it difficult for them to improve their production," said Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Teten Masduki during a public discussion in Jakarta on Jan. 30.

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Statistics Indonesia (BPS) data shows that out of the 1.2 million hectares of coffee plantations in the country, about 90 percent are owned by smallholder farmers. Robusta coffee plantations account for about 70 percent and the remaining 30 percent are Arabica coffee plantations.

Indonesia's coffee production is estimated to have increased slightly to 729,000 tons last year from 722,000 tons in 2018, according to ministries data compiled by the Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry. The figure made the country the fourth-largest coffee producer in the world after Brazil, Vietnam and Colombia.

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