Indonesia risks becoming a net coffee importer as harvests fall

Rising popularity of local coffee shops boosts consumption at home

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Workers sort beans at the Kawisari coffee plantation in the East Java town of Blitar, Indonesia. An aging agricultural workforce is a factor behind the declining productivity of coffee plantations. (Photo by Belinda Yohana)

BELINDA YOHANA

BLITAR, Indonesia -- Indonesian coffee growers are warning that harvests are declining while domestic consumption is edging up, threatening to turn the exporting nation into a net importer over the next few years.

Indonesia is both the world's fourth largest coffee producer and exporter after Brazil, Vietnam and Colombia. It mainly grows robusta beans but also higher quality arabica coffee, counting the U.S., Egypt, Malaysia, Japan and India as its top export destinations.

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