Bali Back to Coffee

Restore Bali coffee can bring progress in the economic industry andreducing landslides and erosion.

Kompas reported that the government of Bali is taking aggressive steps to revive the island's coffee industry growing as fast as a means to improve the economic welfare of the citizens and also as a way to prevent soil erosion and landslides affecting certain areas.

grow as a result of these efforts in areas close to Kintamani, Kubu, Singaraja and other parts of Bali, once the vegetables, flowers and strawberries soaked dedicated acres planted new coffee plants.

Back to Bali coffee

In the recent past was a showcase for the coffee harvest in Bali, which 92% of all agricultural exports. In 1990, coffee exports amounted to 6,100 tons per year. A few years earlier in the decade of 1980, 56,000 hectares of land devoted to coffee cultivation in Bali, with 38,000 hectares devoted to populations of Robusta and the remaining 18,000 hectares of Arabica.

Today, only 31 400 hectares of coffee is held on the island. The decrease in more than two decades, the decline in coffee prices in world markets and economic opportunity in planting vegetables and fruit crops that offers linked.

However, they have grown to improve the market situation for coffee along with a growing global appetite for the distinctive flavor of coffee beans in Bali a renewed interest in the cultivation of this culture produces. In 2008, Bali also receive organic certification for his coffee, to help further increase the demand for Kopi Bali.

An unexpected benefit added back to Bali coffee program is leaving the potentially important role of coffee plantations, soil erosion and landslides in hazardous areas where they can play grown. Location thrive on steep slopes and rocky, making coffee plants have a proven ability in rainfall, because the plant reduces the broad leaves of the violent impact of heavy rains, literally, can trigger landslides. After Wayan Suarna a form of environmental assessment of Bali Udayana University researchers, "the planting of coffee is the soil erosion was prevented more effectively."

To maximize the benefits of two of the most favorable markets for coffee and the reduction of landslides and erosion, the government allocated 2.4 billion rupees from Bali (U.S. $ 266,000) from the 2010 budget for new coffee plantations. This helped lead to 2,611 hectares of coffee plantation. For 2011, the country's government aims to 1,020 hectares cultivated area of ​​coffee and see a steady annual increase of 1,000 hectares each year in a row.