How should I drink Indonesian coffee? Indonesian Socridi Cooperative Coffee introduces the flavor of Indonesian coffee

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Indonesia is a large archipelago country composed of many volcanic islands, with excellent coffee growing environment and latitude, and each island has different characteristics due to different topography and climate.

The producing area of the Socridi Cooperative (Solok Radjo) is located in the Solok district, Nagari Aie Dingin,Nagari Aie Dingin is located at the intersection of the Kerinci area connecting Solok and Jambi, and the land area is 500cm. Arabica coffee here is grown at an altitude of 1400-1600m, and the soil is weak soil and ash soil. This soil characteristic comes from the surrounding active volcanoes, such as Kerinci volcano, so the soil contains a lot of alumina. It has better ability to preserve fertilizer and water.

The climate belongs to dry and early climate, the average annual rainfall is about 2400mm, the dry and wet season is not obvious, but the dry season is mainly between June and September, and the main cultivated varieties are sigararutang (65%), andung sari (15%), ateng (6%), kartica (10%) and other varieties that are difficult to identify. Refreshing acidity, sweetness and pleasant spice flavor are the main features of its cooperative coffee, and its high quality is very popular in the market.

The Socridi Cooperative (Solok Radjo), founded in 2014, has a membership of nearly 890 small coffee farmers. Farmers have set up the cooperative to change the coffee trade system in order to solve the problem that coffee prices are so low due to the long coffee bean trading chain. In order to realize the potential social and economic impact of the coffee supply chain, begin to rebuild forests and coffee cultivation in the Solok and Kerinci areas:

1. Replant the forest to solve the impact of logging and soil erosion on the forest in the past

two。 Establish an agricultural system to protect the independence of local forests and economies

3. Use the division of land area, responsibility and sustainability to help local communities integrate.

4. Provide good coffee seeds for farmers-distribute seeds to farmers free of charge during the rainy season

5. Consultation, guidance and supervision of coffee planting management-Solok Radjo provides training guidance for members by 4 experts, agroforestry model for growing coffee, planning for new planting, and computational cultivation of soil microorganisms in chemical and organic fertilizers

6. Stable supply of quality coffee beans to business partners through a transparent and fair supply chain

In order to establish valid production data, starting in 2018 (expected to be completed in 2023), the Sokredi Cooperative (Solok Radjo), in partnership with CommCare, began to establish Solok-Kerinci Coffee Map data tracking-data tracking helps in production planning, crop forecasting, fertilizer calculation, management and monitoring of diseases and insect pests. This project has created a transparency that did not exist in Indonesia's coffee supply chain in the past. In the same year, the Socridi Cooperative (Solok Radjo) established a sample park on land that is not currently used for production, using the sample park to provide learning about the best way to grow and cultivate coffee, which is also the source of high-quality seeds.

In the treatment, in order to maintain the stability of drying temperature to ensure the quality of coffee, Solok Radjo uses ultraviolet dryer UV (Ultra Violet) dryers to control the temperature at 35-50 degrees C, so that the water content of coffee can be maintained at 12%.

Through a series of efforts, Solok Radjo finally succeeded in rekindling local enthusiasm for coffee cultivation and forest conservation in 2019, taking sustainable agricultural forest development as the orientation of coffee cultivation and with the slogan "Coffee is for the people and the Earth".

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