Coffee-based Agroforestry Policy
The interesting fact when we visited somearea of coffe platation, all the way from the city of the Plantation to the district capital, Kuala Tungkal, we will be treated to views of the coffee plantations are planted with coconut and nut mixes are then formed a coffee-based agroforests. The formation of these agroforests pattern turns through a long process.
In general, early farmers clearing land to grow rice as a source of household food security. As limiting gardens, farmers cultivating coconut around him. Based on the narrative of society, the coffee plant has been cultivated since the days before independence, albeit in relatively small quantities.
Coffee is cultivated society began massively since the late 80s. Against the background of the failure of the project Revitalization, Rehabilitation and Expansion of Export Crops (PRPTE), hybrid coconut plantation failure due to pests pigs. Farmers seek other alternatives to coffee and nut inserts among the dead palm trees. Nut trees are usually planted along the trenches children that serves to strengthen the structure of the soil so that the soil does not cover landslide trench. Coconut and betel turned out to be a good shade for coffee plants.
When productivity and the price of coconut / copra continued to decline, coffee became the main crop because they are relatively stable.
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