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Bengkulu Improves Coffee Production
WINDONESIA May 20, 2024
Green coffee beans from a coffee farmer in Batu Raja Rejang Village, Hulu Palik District, North Bengkulu Regency. (ANTARA/Anom Prihantoro).
Bengkulu Province Food Crops, Horticulture, and Plantations (TPHP) Office recorded the province's coffee harvest production in the area increasing to reaching three tons per hectare (ha).
Bengkulu TPHP Office Head M. Rizon stated in Bengkulu City on May 13, 2024 that coffee production in the area was previously only 1.2 tons per ha.
"Currently, many coffee plantation companies are using organic fertilizers because they have been proven to increase coffee production," he said.
The increase in coffee production in Bengkulu Province is due to the farmers in the area continuously intensifying agriculture as well as improvements on the quality of plantation lands, such as by the switch from inorganic or chemical fertilizers to organic ones.
Rizon hopes that coffee farmers in Bengkulu will continue to maintain the quality of the coffee harvested so that the taste and image of Bengkulu coffee will improve further. He also hopes that coffee farmers in the province would not repurpose their land.
"At present, it is also the harvest season in the Bengkulu Province. The price of coffee beans has reached Rp60,000 per kilogram, the highest in recent years," he said.
Previously, the Bengkulu TPHP Office recorded that coffee production in the area from January to December 2023 reached 50,370 tons from a land area of 90,964 ha.
Rizon explained that the high coffee production in Bengkulu during 2023 was due to farmers improving the quality of coffee plantation land.
Source: bengkulu.antaranews.com
