Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan (ANTARA) - The Provincial Government of South Kalimantan has begun to look at the coffee market through an innovation called Bang Kodim.
Head of South Kalimantan Plantation and Livestock Service Office Suparmi here on Monday said that Bang Kodim is an (Indonesian) acronym for integrated coffee plantation development.
"Nowadays cafes grow like mushroom in the rainy season, the demand for coffe is very high," she said.
Meanwhile, she acknowledged that coffee production in South Kalimantan was not sufficient. The reason is that coffee farming land is only around 2,800 hectares.
"Our annual production is only about 1,500 tons, while the demand is beyond that," she pointed out.
Seeing the big opportunity for economic improvement in the coffee plantation sector for the community, the provincial government, she said, then moved quickly to make it a priority.
Especially that South Kalimantan will be the buffer for the new state capital (IKN) of Nusantara in the neighboring province of East Kalimantan, it has great potential to become supplier of coffee.
"The new capital of South Kalimantan, Banjabaru City, is also a big potential for local coffee product," she said.
Suparmi explained the innovation of Bang Kodim is coffee planting carried out intercropping by farmers, for example in rubber plantation.
"Coffee is an easy plant to grow, it can be planted between rubber trees," she said.
In additon, this innovation also to intensify coffee plantation by collaborating with livestock.
According to Suparmi, Governor H Sahbirin Noor has directed on how integrate plantation with livestock. The aim is to increase the welfare of farmers.
"So from plantation we obtain, and we also obtain from livestock," she said.
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