Lutheran
World Relief (LWR), a U.S. based non-profit development organization
engaged in seeking lasting solutions to poverty and reducing risk, is
seeking an experienced Trainer of Cupping for your in Ende, Nusa
Tenggara Timur.
Trainer need to submit their CV, including information who
they have been trained before, training agenda and cost to LWR.
This training
is considered as first step of youth to establish coffee business, for them to
learn coffee from downstream to upstream, a very basic introduction about
coffee cupping should be included in curriculum. In additional to that, linking
coffee quality with farm practice will be preferred.
Trainer need to details on how many das the
training will be take for how many hours with training session. LWR will not
provided any cupping equipment, which the trainer need to be included in their
proposal. All proposal should be submitted at by February 20th, 2018 to lwrindonesia1@gmail.com
Background
The
participation of youth in agriculture is decreasing national wide due to
irregular and unstable income. Likewise, food crop, in coffee commodity, there
is limited number of youth who actively engaged. Indonesia Statistic Board
noted that number of farmer has decreased and 5 million households are no
longer farmer. The age of farmers is getting older. 60.8 % of farmers are at
above 45-year-old with limited education background (basic school only) and
lack of new technology adoption. In contrast, regeneration process particularly
on food related farming is very slow and youth prefer to work in industry
sector instead of farming. Youth viewed agriculture did not provide regular
income since the profit will be received only during harvest session instead of
monthly basis. Moreover, agriculture did not also give stable income during its
harvest due to many factors, such as production failure and market price
fluctuation. Consequently, youth preferred to work in the city for different
types of job, including daily labor. Combined with selling farming land and
convert it to the infrastructure, such as hotel, shops, and tourist facility,
this, furthermore, has caused decreased agriculture productivity. There are
many variables influence youth’s (within farmer families) passion to be
farmers, including sex and main activity/occupation, interest, ambition, and
knowledge on farmer regeneration.
Lutheran
World Relief (here and after refer as LWR) is starting the project in Detusoko,
Ende, Flores to increase youth participation in agriculture by proving that
agriculture is promising income source through creating entrepreneurship
opportunities and improve on-farm practice. Youth will be engaged not only in farming
and cultivating coffee or other crops, but also in building entrepreneurship
utilizing value added from their farming product.
One of the
support is to provide youth capacity in establishing café as one of market
access for their coffee production. In order to that, youth need to improve
their capacity in understanding coffee quality, which also known as coffee
cupping.
Objective
The objective of the training is to provide
training on coffee cupping for at least 10 youth in Detusoko, Ende.
At the end
of the training session the result expected as follow:
- Participants understand and skill about cupping technique, including scoring
- Participants understand on what make different taste of brewed coffee
- Participants understand how their farming/post-harvesting practice may reflect on coffee quality
The training will be conducted in Detusoko on March 2018.
