CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1. Background Coffee plants are very familiar plants in the garden area of rural population in Indonesia. If the potential of this powerful we can use it is not difficult to make these commodities become a mainstay in the plantation sector. Just need a little touch of the right technical cultivation, shall we optimistically hope into reality. Coffee is one of the plantation commodity that has a real contribution in the national economy, that is as foreign exchange earners, farmers' income sources, producing industrial raw materials, job creation and regional development. Of the total area of 1302 million hectares in 2005, most (95.96%) worked in the form of smallholders and the remainder (4.04%) worked in the form of large estates. Position indicates that the role of farmers in the development of national economy is still quite dominant. Planting coffee grown mostly Robusta covering 1,191,557 ha (91.5%) and Arabica coffee area of 110,486 ha (8.95%) (...
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