Mengapa Petani Ogah Petik Buah Kopi Merah?

Mu'arif, petani kopi dari Jember, menjelaskan kepada Anda sekalian mengapa para petani kopi mencampuradukkan antara buah-buah kopi merah matang dan yang masih hijau. Petani merasa rugi jika hanya memetik kopi matang tanpa ada tambahan penghargaan pada jerih payah tenaga kerja mereka. Jika Anda ingin minum kopi berasa mantap, kecuali teknik seduh yang oke, memang tak ada cara lain kecuali meminum kopi yang berasal hanya dari buah-buah kopi matang berwarna merah saja. Jika tidak, maka seperti mangga mengkal, kopi yang Anda minum tak lain adalah "Kopi Mengkal" ..

Abandoned Coffee Plants in W. Java

Bourbon or Catuai 

in Garut of WJava?

We discover our quite close farmer-friend Asep Sukatani who claims himself as vegetable grower in fact is also a part of a community who has Arabica coffee plants in their plots of land. We visited in December and we find that in the past they had even more the much appraised coffee varietal of the old typica.

However we will have to re-grow it because all existing coffee plants among the vegetable fields, we suspect, are of the new ones, i.e. the coffee varietals developed in Jember of East Java. Local government’s office overseeing commodity plants distribute the seedling freely from time to time for the farmers to grow.