Husna Nugrahapraja
Residents in Tarumajaya Village have livelihoods as farm laborers, livestock workers, employees of PTPN VIII, employees of PT. Indonesian Lonsum, Farmers and Farmers. Tarumajaya Village has the potential of natural resources in the form of tea plantation land, quinine, forestry and agriculture, especially potatoes and carrots. In addition, Tarumajaya villages are also known as one of the ranch villages in the productive Bandung Regency producing cow's milk where the production of milk production is supplied to PT. Ultra Jaya and Frisian Flag through Pangalengan KPBS and Tarumajaya Village have a situ cisanti tourism wana which is the main upstream of the Citarum River which is currently a priority from the regional government starting from the district, provincial and 3 centers for the reduction in river pollution and the normalization of the Citarum River's condition. This favorable geographical condition is ideally the village of Cibeureum can create a large and large-scale coffee industry climate so that it can help improve the welfare of the community, especially coffee farmers. But unfortunately the people in the village only act as coffee pickers, because most coffee cherries have been sold to the Ciwidey area at a fairly cheap price, which is IDR 5,000 / kg. This condition makes the public unable to optimize the crops due to reluctant to process coffee beans.
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The amount of coffee production in Cibeureum Village is not in line with the development of the coffee industry and the processing process. In the coffee production chain ranging from hatchery to become ready-to-drink products, which generally occur in the village of Cibeureum only up to limited to hatchery to harvest coffee fruit only. More than half of Indonesia's coffee exports in the form of raw materials (coffee fruit), especially high quality coffee such as Arabica.