The rise of cultivating a number of agricultural commodities through an organic way, also helped arouse curiosity coffee growers.
Not only the economic aspect into consideration, hope to restore soil fertility has been eroded is also a motivating factor. This was disclosed Vice Chairman of the Coffee Growers Association (Apeki) Waterford, Rachmat Pratikto when met at his residence, on Wednesday (23 / 3).
But for the Waterford area, acknowledged the idea is merely the discourse. The reason is many things to be prepared prior to implementing such systems in the field. One of them is a factor 5recovery land.
Described Praktiko, the transition from the system chemically to an organic fertilizer will certainly have an impact shock impact on the productivity of land plants.
"Public happened organically cultivated produce fewer crops than chemical fertilizer. But now it's starting to try to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers bit by bit," he said.
Nitrogen
In the use of organic fertilizers, calculated the ratio is much larger than the chemical. He pointed out the land, coffee plants required at least four quintals of urea fertilizer. If converted to organic systems require fertilizer equivalent of several trucks.
"The main chemical element needed is nitrogen. Compare it, the content of these elements in the urea reaches 45 percent of organic fertilizer but in only about 3 percent," he said.
On the other hand, organic fertilizers have the advantage of the nutrient content of a more complete so that it can adjust the acidity of the soil. To overcome this problem, estimated to take 7-10 years until the land is really ready and production can be stabilized.
"If it will be applied starting from the land ideally located at a height position at the top. It is no use if it is done in the bottom land, because land will be contaminated again with chemicals carried by the flow of water from above," he explained.
In the implementation of organic farming, Chairman of the Central Java Apeki I was also reminded of the importance of target markets and consumers. During this time, organic coffee has been produced as a Toraja district is almost entirely absorbed in the Japanese export market, with prices up to 10 times more than regular coffee.