Indonesia expecting a bumper coffee harvest
If you like your Indonesian coffees then we expect you to be doing cartwheels and bouncing off walls at the news that farmers in the country are predicting a bumper crop this season thanks to some recent wet weather.
The archipelago nation is one of the world’s biggest producers of coffee and produces everything from cheap and resilient Robusta through to some exceptionally fine Arabicas that command top dollar at market.
Estimates published in The Jakarta Globe put this year’s haul at a potential 650,000 metric tons, a rise of 18% from the 550,000 tons that was collected last year. If true, this would represent the largest harvest the country has seen, surpassing the record 630,000 ton crop of 2009-10 and 2012-13.
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Low exports blamed on high taxes in Indonesia
With domestic output shrinking and export taxes increasing, the Indonesian government looks certain to miss their own imposed targets of exporting 450,000 tons of coffee this year.
As Benjamin Franklin once famously noted to Jean-Baptiste Leroy; “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
If the thresholds had been achieved then the Indonesian government would likely have brought in $1.5bn. Instead they’ll have to settle for less, but it will still be a significant sum of money.
Not that everybody is happy about that – especially as lower exports were predicted back at the start of this year.
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New ideas for Indonesian coffee farmers
Indonesian coffee has something of a reputation, doesn’t it?
Many of us have heard of the famous luwak coffee, created by using coffee beans which have been selected and passed through a weasel-like animal called a civet – in fact, this is one of the most expensive and sought after coffees in the world.
However, although Indonesian coffee has been up with the top global coffee producers over the years, latterly there has been a concern that there is an inconsistency in quality.