The Story of Coffee Nursery
The Story of Coffee Nursery.20 years old Raihan takes care the germinated coffee in coffee nursery. After high school, 20 years old Raihan did not want to continue her education to university. In his village, there are not many jobs available, so when other young people after graduating from college and return to Jeget Ayu they remain unemployed. ‘In the end you become a farmer too, so you have to learn farming,’ said Raihan. She is happy to be able to learn farming from the beginning as an asset to live a life in the future if she has her own land. .The Story of Rukimah
The Story of Rukimah.35 years old Rukimah, a wife and a mother of two, shows the coffee cherries. Due to Covid 19, the price of coffee has decreased a lot. Rukimah hopes the price will be normal again, so her daughter could continue the education to the university. “If the price of coffee back to the price before pandemic, I think I could send my daughter to university”, she said..The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari, a wife and mother of three. Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari, a wife and mother of three. Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari, a wife and mother of three. Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari (left), a wife and mother of three pick the red cherries with the help of her neighbour Yatmin (48). Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..The Story of Coffee Nursery
The Story of Coffee Nursery.20 years old Raihan shows the germinated coffee in coffee nursery. She learns many new things during the coffee nursery programme. Although the children of coffee farmers often help their parents at their coffee plantation, they know the process of growing coffee from preparing the land, sowing the seeds, to tending the coffee beans into germination during the coffee nursery program. The program has added new knowledge for them that they previously only knows how to harvest the coffee cherry..The Story of Sumardi
The Story of Sumardi.Sumardi (30) (right) and Seman (left) tries to use a pulper machine from Fairtrade. Pulper machines are provided per coffee farmer group. Farmers can borrow the pulper machine to take them to their farm, if the farm location is far from the collector. With a pulper machine, farmers can process coffee from cherry into grain in their farm. Farmers’ jobs are more effective, because they can directly transport coffee grain from the fields to the collectors. When processing cherries with a pulper machine in the fields, they can leave the coffee skins in their farm so that the coffee skins will later become organic fertilizer for their coffee plants..The Story of Rukimah
The Story of Rukimah.Rukimah says if the price is still low like this, we can not pay people to maintain the coffee trees or help us to harvest the cherries during harvest season. Usually we have to pay 3-4 people to help us work in the coffee farm. Now, as the strategy to save the expenses, I and my husband do all the work of maintaining it by ourselves. Because we get the training as well so we can work on our farm otherwise we need to pay other people to do that. ..Rukimah also planted some vegetables so it could help her family to survive beside the coffee income. “The vegetable prices are also decreasing, but I am still able to cook the vegetables for family,” she said. In this kind of time, we also need to maintain our health. Our health is number one, meanwhile we can always find a way to meet financial needs..The Story of Sumardi
The Story of Sumardi.Sumardi (30) (left) and Seman (49) (right) tries to use a pulper machine from Fairtrade. They check the coffee grain from the pulper machine. ..Pulper machines are provided per coffee farmer group. Farmers can borrow the pulper machine to take them to their farm, if the farm location is far from the collector. With a pulper machine, farmers can process coffee from cherry into grain in their farm. Farmers’ jobs are more effective, because they can directly transport coffee grain from the fields to the collectors. When processing cherries with a pulper machine in the fields, they can leave the coffee skins in their farm so that the coffee skins will later become organic fertilizer for their coffee plants..The Story of Rukimah
The Story of Rukimah.35 years old Rukimah, a wife and a mother of two works at her coffee farm. Usually we have to pay 3-4 people to help us work in the coffee farm. Now, as the strategy to save the expenses, I and my husband do all the work of maintaining it by ourselves. Because we get the training as well so we can work on our farm otherwise we need to pay other people to do that. .The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari (left), a wife and mother of three pick the red cherries with the help of her neighbour Yatmin (48). Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari (left), a wife and mother of three pick the red cherries with the help of her neighbour Yatmin (48). Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..
