The tea commodity in Paninggaran District is a former PIR Program and has been cultivated since 1986. The total land area is around 511 hectares. Now hundreds of tea farmers in Paninggaran District, are able to produce premium quality green tea. With assistance from the Jateng Berdikari Foundation, Business Watch Indonesia (BWI), and the Pekalongan…
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Paninggaran Tea Production Tastes Good
KAJEN – Monday (9/4/2018), on the sidelines of attending the Tea Time for the Pekalongan Regency Government at PT. Pagilaran Kaliboja Paninggaran District, Regent of Pekalongan KH. Asip Kholbihi, SH., M.Si took the time to visit the cooperative that produces tea in Sawangan Village, Paninggaran District. The name of the cooperative is Paninggaran Berdikari Makmur,…
Government Efforts to Prevent Decreasing National Tea Area
Agrofarm-Deputy for Food and Agriculture Coordination at the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Musdhalifah Machmud said, in order to maintain the sustainability of Indonesian tea plantations, her side is pushing for the acceleration of new plantings on land owned by smallholder tea farmers in PHBM (Joint Community Forest Management) lands. The area of Indonesian tea…
Ministry of Trade Holds Tea Exported Products Clinic to Encourage Business Actors to Increase Competitiveness
The Ministry of Trade continues to make efforts to diversify Indonesian tea products so that they have added value and are competitive to strengthen the export market for tea commodity. One of these efforts was carried out through a seminar entitled Exported Product Clinic ‘Opportunities for Exporting Tea Products Abroad’ in Bandung, West Java, Wednesday…
Garut Tea Farmers Now Have Their Own Factory
Deputy Trade Minister Bayu Krisnamurthi said he had inaugurated the Smallholders Tea Factory “Iroet” in Cisaat, Sukatani Village, Cilawu District, Garut, West Java. According to him, smallholders tea “Iroet” is expected to reduce farmers’ dependence on (large) factory owners. “As well as increasing revenue from the added value of the tea products produced,” he told…
First People’s Tea Factory in Indonesia Rp 3.5 Billion Built in Garut
Garut – Smallholders Tea Factory “Iroet” is the first tea factory in Indonesia owned by tea farmers; tea factory is usually owned by corporations. The factory is located in Cisaat, Sukatani Village, Cilawu District, Garut, West Java. “Today we see a historic event, the first tea cooperative in Indonesia which is established by tea farmers…
Businesses Urge the Government to Tighten Tea Imports
JAKARTA. Tea industry players asked the government to apply non-tariff barriers to block the onslaught of tea imports. This can be done by imposing standards or tightening the quality of tea imports. Dede Kusdiman, General Chair of the Indonesian Tea Association (ATI) asked that regulations on tea imports be made like tea exports. For tea…
British Consumers are Interested in Indonesian Tea
LONDON – One of the British tea producers, Finlays, Ottilie Cunningham admits that tea from Indonesia is very natural and of high quality compared to tea from other countries. This was revealed during a business luncheon with around 20 British tea entrepreneurs held at the Indonesian Embassy in London, Tuesday afternoon (12/11/2013). According to Cunningham,…
Indonesian Tea Imports Soar
BISNIS.COM, JAKARTA – Even though Indonesia has abundant natural resources for agricultural businesses, tea imports continue to show an increase. Even last year there was a spike. Quoting the Agriculture Sector Macro Indicator, published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Indonesia’s tea imports last year reached 29,584 tons or US$39.5 million. Compared to the previous year’s…
Indonesian Tea Ready to Compete in AFTA
Bandung: Indonesian tea products are more ready to welcome the ASEAN free market in 2015 than products from other sectors. This was disclosed by the Advisor of the Indonesian Tea Association, Insyaf Malik, in Bandung, Wednesday (15/5). He said, tea producers in Indonesia have more experience than other countries in ASEAN, and even become leaders…