The program aims to improve the empowerment of coffee farmers in Lampung Province.
“We are one of the implementing agencies for ICARE, a program by the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the World Bank, which began this year,” Head of BRMP Lampung Endro Gunawan said in Bandarlampung on Monday.
He explained that this year’s program focuses on Tanggamus District, known as one of Lampung’s main robusta coffee production centers.
In addition to being a coffee-producing area, Tanggamus is also a center for goat farming. “We will integrate these two sectors so that coffee cultivation can go hand-in-hand with goat farming managed by local farmers,” Gunawan said.
Through the ICARE program, which runs until 2027, Tanggamus is expected to increase the independence and empowerment of coffee farmers, enabling them to gain greater business profits and added value from integrating coffee farming with goat farming.
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This will be achieved through strengthening farm institutions, in the form of farm corporations.
“This program is designed to support area management and agricultural commodity value chains in a sustainable and inclusive manner at selected locations, including Tanggamus,” Gunawan said.
ICARE is also part of the priority agricultural development agenda outlined in the 2020–2024 National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN), particularly in improving food security and increasing the added value of agricultural products.
Lampung Province itself holds great potential as the second-largest robusta coffee producer in Indonesia, after South Sumatra.
As of 2022, Lampung’s coffee plantations covered 156,268 hectares, producing a total of 118,139 tons of coffee.
The main coffee production centers are spread across the districts of Lampung Barat, Tanggamus, Lampung Utara, and Waykanan.
“The empowerment of coffee farmers in these areas will continue to be strengthened,” Gunawan added.
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