Local coffee bean farmers in North Sumatra partner up with licensed exporters to market their products overseas

As an effort to improve the welfare of coffee beans farmers in North Sumatra, the local government in this region is now trying to facilitate a sales channel for these farmers to market their product. There has been a growing demand for single-origin coffee beans from North Sumatra from neighboring countries such as Thailand and Malaysia, but the problem is the smallholder farmers still do not have a representative company to promote and export their products. Knowing this, the government has formed a partnership with licensed exporter from this region to source the coffee beans from the farmers and trade the commodity to buyers from overseas. North Sumatra province itself has a high potential to be a major contributor for coffee beans nationally as the current production capacity from this province has reached the level of 200 MT of green beans in a week.