The Supporting and Impeding Factors of Java Preanger Coffee Agribusiness on Margamulya of Pangalengan Sub District of Bandung Regency (original) (raw)

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

Java preanger coffee is internationally recognized as superior arabica coffee from West Java, particularly in coffee trading. The high demand and selling price of coffee has no fully supported the coffee agribusiness because there are other factors influencing it. This research aims to determine the factors supporting and inhibiting the agribusiness of sustainable Java preanger coffee in the Margamulya village the District of Pangalengan. The research design used is qualitative descriptive with case study method. The results showed that in subsystem agro-input, the main supporting factors are coffee plant seedlings and labor, while the main constraint factors are land, fertilizers, weather, and capital. In the agro-processing subsystem, the main supporting factors are the knowledge of farmers in the cultivation of sustainable coffee and selling prices of coffee, while the constraining factors are among others climate changes, and capital. In the agro-industry subsystem, the main supporting factor is processing technology, while the inhibiting factor is capital and processing equipment. On the agriculture marketing subsystem, the supporting factors are market certainty, while the inhibiting factor is capital. On agri-service subsystem, the main supporting factor is the availability of cooperatives, extension agencies, farmer groups, mass media, while the inhibiting factors are less coordinations between supporting institutions with farmers and the absence of financial institutions that provide credit by the characteristics of coffee farming.