Coffee Craze

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

The Association of Indonesian Coffee Exporters recently released figures indicating domestic coffee consumption continues to grow, currently at five to six percent a year. Worldwide consumption is also predicted to increase 25 percent by 2020. This big potential is prompting many Indonesian coffee farmers to expand their productivity. At Pipikaro, Central Sulawesi, local farmers promote a unique robusta variety of coffee regurgitated by mammals. They recently staged the Pipikoro Coffee Festival, and took part at the Palu Creative Coffee Festival. In Bulukumba, South Sulawesi, farmers seek new techniques to improve their organic coffee crop. Tempo English reports.

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Move Over Luwak, There's now Toratima
Farmers at Sigi regency in Central Sulawesi, have introduced coffee beans processed by wild mammals such as squirrels, cuscus, tarsier and bats. Luwak coffee is no longer unique.

Collecting coffee beans scattered on the ground has become Abed Nego Tonta's morning routine. Tonta, who lives in Peana village, Central Sulawesi, gathers the coffee beans and puts them in a can. If he is lucky, he can fill up a tin co

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