Bengkulu develops Sigarar Utang coffee

Sigarar Utang coffee, like arabica coffee of Medan, North Sumatra, is now being developed in Bengkulu on land with an altitude of about 1,000 meters avove sea level.Some 44,000 sigarar utang coffee trees in the Mangkorajo hills in Lebon regency, had been developed since 2006, and since 2007 also developed in Mojorejo village, Rejang Lebong regency as pilot project, said Madihi, staff member of the Bengkulu Provincial Forestry Agency.Sigarar Utang coffee needs shorter time to bear fruits, namely only 1.8 years, compared to more than three years needed by robusta coffee raised by Bengkulu growers.Head of the Bengkulu Provincial Plantation Agency Taswin Munir said on a different occasion that the land of the coffee crops in Bengkulu province had reached 125,764 ha, with an average production of 71,219 tons, involving 94,903 farmer families.Coffee in Bengkulu province, besides rubber and cocoa, have been the region`s main farm commodities.
(http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2008/2/15/bengkulu-develops-sigarar-utang-coffee/)