Indonesian coffee output hurt by harsher weather conditions

Published 2024년 2월 26일

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Indonesia, one of the world's largest coffee producers, is facing its lowest coffee harvest in over a decade due to extreme weather conditions. The shift from extreme rainfall to severe drought, caused by the La Niña and El Niño climate patterns respectively, has significantly reduced coffee bean production. The total production is expected to fall below 10 million 60-kilogram sacks this year. The changing climate could also reduce the land available for coffee cultivation by 21–37%. Farmers are struggling with the situation, citing lack of government support and high fertilizer costs.

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JEMBER, Indonesia — In good weather, Saturi’s coffee field here on a hillside on the east of Indonesia’s Java Island will produce around 2.5 metric tons of coffee beans over the course of a season. This year, he expects to get less than a ton. “The weather has meant there have been a lot of fires,” Saturi told Mongabay Indonesia at his home in Jember district in December. Saturi’s story reflects the plight of farmers more broadly in the world’s fourth-largest coffee-producing nation, where the weather has lurched from extreme rainfall caused by a La Niña climate pattern that lasted from 2020-2022, to a punishing drought sparked last year by El Niño. This year’s coffee harvest in Indonesia is forecast to be the lowest in more than a decade. Jember farmers blame El Niño, in which above-average temperatures in the Pacific produce dangerously dry weather over Southeast Asia. Torrential rain over a long period can easily drown coffee flowers before they produce beans, while sustained ...

Source: Dailycoffeenews