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KONTAN.CO.ID – BANYUWANGI. PT Bank Negara Indonesia Tbk (BNI) and PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) XII strengthen their support for coffee growers in East Java. One of the main support for the distribution of business credit (KUR) and the BNI partnership credit to coffee growers who became partners of PTPN XII.
This support is the result of a synergy between the INB and the PTPN XII, which is implemented by the state and which aims to improve the well-being of coffee producers.
BNI Small Business & Network Director Catur Budi Harto said BNI distributed KUR to coffee growers in Banyuwangi and surrounding areas from March to April 2018, or a month after launching the PTPN XII Farmers Partnership Program with BNI. At the time, 559 coffee farmers received 5.2 billion rupees from the BNI.
BNI support to farmer coffee growers continued on June 26, 2018 with the disbursement of partnership credits. A total of 1018 small coffee farmers are obtaining partnership loans totaling Rp 7.6 billion. Financing of KUR farmers was carried out individually in three districts (Banyuwangi, Jember and Malang).
There are therefore about 1,577 small coffee growers who received a BNI credit, either in the form of a KUR credit or a partnership credit.
BNI hopes that recipients of partnership credits will get advice so that they can go to clbad and qualify to get KUR in the next period.
GM Commercial Small Business Division INB Bambang Setyatmojo said BNI's concern for improving the well-being of farmers, among others, is to select farmers to include in training and certification of Barista.
According to Bambang, in an effort to improve the welfare of PTPN XII coffee producers, the two state-owned enterprises provide a capacity-building program to enrich and increase farmers' knowledge. Activities capacity building undertaken among other things the formation of coffee culture to be more productive and superior. Then provide training on harvesting and harvesting techniques and proper processing of coffee. Then, create a farmer's coffee producer in a barista.
"The presenter capacity building comes from PTPN XII and owns Ijen Isun Cafe," he said in a statement received by Kontan.co.id, Sunday (1/7 ).
The inclusion of BNIs in the welfare programs of coffee-producing farmers is motivated by several factors. First, small-scale coffee producers are still unable to access financing, market access, and access to good coffee growing training.
Second, the common peasant's coffee plantation takes the form of a coffee plant whose age is old, so it needs to be rejuvenated. Third, the productivity and quality of coffee producers still do not meet the standards of a quality coffee.
Fourth, still the idle capacity shortage of raw materials PTPN XII factory provided by the people's coffee. Fifth, the implementation of research results / development of PTPN XII coffee technology required by community coffee farmers for the well-being of farmers.
Thanks to the collaboration between BNI and PTPN XII, farmers can obtain various benefits, particularly with regard to management, access to financing and access to the harvest market. coffee. Second, the quality and productivity of popular coffee has increased.
Third, farmers can cultivate properly and maintain the continuity of coffee production and environmental sustainability. Fourth, the level of garden security improves with the growing well-being of peasant coffee farmers.
Reporter: Laurensius Marshall Sitanggang Sautlan
Publisher: Dupla Kartini
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