![]() ![]() The use of chemical fertilizers has reached alarming levels in the project’s Tanah Karo and Dairi districts and has led to a sharp decline in soil quality. Organic Farming for Enhanced Sustainability Similarly, 68% of the beneficiaries practiced improved harvesting techniques by applying selective harvest while only 4% for the control group. The highest gap can be noticed in weed control, where 84% of the beneficiaries reported practicing weed control compared to only 9% of the control group. The use of high yields seedling among beneficiaries reached 35%, while the control sample is only at 21%. ![]() The evaluation compared the Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) adoption rate of beneficiaries with a control group. Overall, over 350 coffee producers benefited from capacity building between 20, out of which 40% were women.Ī post-evaluation conducted in 2020 found that the capacity building interventions have increased the adoption of good agricultural practices among beneficiaries. To address this issue, ITFC has partnered with PETRASA and SCOPI, the Sustainable Coffee Platform of Indonesia, to implement a program that aims at enhancing the quality and yield of the coffee industry in North Sumatra. But improving production quality requires investment in inputs, skills, and processing. ![]() ![]() Indonesian coffee producers are encouraged to shift their focus from producing high volumes to producing better quality and higher value coffee. More than 95% of Indonesia’s coffee is produced by smallholder farmers working an average farm size of less than one hectare, and low productivity rates of only 700 kg/ha. Indonesia is the world’s fourth-largest coffee producing nation. ![]()
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