It is because of this lake that Sumatra has the largest rainfall seen by any coffee exporting country – the lake feeds clouds trapped in by the island’s 1500m tall mountains. In this lake there is an island bigger than the country of Singapore. In the middle of the island is a caldera called Lake Toba: the largest caldera from the largest volcanic explosion this world has ever seen. To talk about Sumatra we need to speak of its size. This is a much needed safeguard to the biodiversity in the Kerinci Seblat National Park that borders the farms and is home to nearly 40% of all the remaining wild tigers on the planet. Farmers in Kerinci are located around the border area between South Sumatra and West Sumatra, near to the famous tall, active volcano, Mount Kerinci.įarmers in this collector group take part in local reforestation (coffee trees planted among shade trees) of previously cleared land by illegal loggers. Prior to that, most of the coffee industry influence here was from far South Sumatra, where Robusta is the main crop. We keep each of his deliveries separate in order to assess quality between his different lots.įarmers in the Kerinci region only started planting Arabica coffee around 2010. This is made possible due to weekly contact with Pak Nai during the harvest season, and his agreement to deliver coffee directly to us in Medan instead of others in his region. This is opposite to the standard Sumatran model where there are several more middlemen in the line, bulking up to multiple-container lots when the coffee arrives in Medan. Through Crop to Cup’s local staff in Medan, we are able to purchase this collector’s coffee as its own lot. He purchases both cherry and wet parchment and pays them cash as opposed to buying with credit like many middlemen traders in Sumatra. Pak Nai is a collector working with around 200 smallholder farmers in the Kerinci area.
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