Not an Elegy…
The area of smallholder tea farms has been shrinking thousands of hectares over the past decade.
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A worker lays tea leaves out to dry on 27 Jan. 2019 at Pasir Canar tea factory in Jayagiri, Sukanagara, Cianjur regency, West Java.
The area of smallholder tea farms has been shrinking thousands of hectares over the past decade. However, this condition does not signify an end to these farms. Hope for the future of the country’s tea industry is still alive and well at these smallholder farms.
Smallholder farms comprise most of the tea plantations in Indonesia, covering 52,156 hectares (50 percent) of tea plantations in the country in 2018. Smallholder tea farms comprise a much vaster area than state-owned plantations (26,788 ha) and private plantations (25,476 ha).