Coffee Takes Command
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
A large, neatly tied pile of burlap sacks sits at a cooperative office in Solok, West Sumatra. The aroma instantly gives away its contents coffee beans. In the backyard is an area reserved for drying.
Coffee plantations pepper the hillside of Danau Atas, which sits 1,200 meters above sea level. Syafrizal Rado Endah, 51, is a coffee farmer in the area, tilling more than 1,500 coffee plants. He said that at one point, his plants were so plentiful he could produce 50 kilograms of freshly picked Arabica coffee fruit every two weeks. "I sell them at Rp6,000 a kilogram," he said. All told, he earns about Rp 600,000 per month selling coffee.
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A large, neatly tied pile of burlap sacks sits at a cooperative office in Solok, West Sumatra. The aroma instantly gives away its contents coffee beans. In the backyard is an area reserved for drying.
Coffee plantations pepper the hillside of Danau Atas, which sits 1,200 meters above sea level. Syafrizal Rado Endah, 51, is a coffee farmer in the area, tilling more than 1,500 coffee plants. He said that at one point, his plants were so plentiful
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