Gayo Coffee, in addition to famous in its own country, is also known by coffee lovers abroad, especially in the European Union. Although the Gayo highlands have 60 varieties and cultivated variety of coffee, but only two variants are now developed farming communities, namely varieties Gayo 1 and Gayo 2.
Currently, Gayo coffee is entering the harvest season. "This harvest lasts from November to December. In the next semester of the next year, the harvest will be exhausted, "said coffee farmer in Jamur Uluh Village, Wih Pesam Subdistrict, Bener Meriah Regency.
To harvest coffee, farmers in the Gayo highlands bring in quotation workers from other districts in Aceh, even from North Sumatra. "Harvest costs are calculated per can of picked coffee beans. "For one can of size 10 bamboo is paid Rp20 thousand," explained this woman of Javanese descent.
According to him, his side recently overwhelmed get picked workers. In fact, during the rainy season like today's fast coffee coffee, even fall out of the tree.
During the harvest season, he explained, the results obtained per hectare of gardens reaches 100-250 cans of logs once quoted. Even so, the amount of the harvest depends on the care and fertilization of the coffee garden. "The harvest this time, greatly decreased when compared to previous years," said coffee farmers
Currently, the price of red coffee or coffee arabika gayo type of Rp100 thousand to Rp120 thousand. "This is the selling price of the farmers," he said.