“The Ethnography Gayo Coffee Farmers During COVID-19 Pandemic Era”

Why Yet Become A Prosperoucity Coffee Farmer? (Ethnography of Smallholder Coffee Producers in the Gayo Highlands)

“…These structural barriers occur due to smallholder Coffee producers' dependence on global markets because of the necessity for smallholder Coffee producers to be able to follow the concept of good agriculture practice so that inevitably farmers must follow global standards in caring for their farms. Even though the smallholder producers have local knowledge that has manifested in their daily habits (Nazaruddin et al, 2020), this cannot be said to be a collective representation of smallholder producers in the Gayo highlands. The slowdown in the collectivity of local knowledge has become a centrifugal force that has an impact on increasing income not seen in Gayo smallholder Coffee producers as a whole.…”

“…In addition, the slowdown in social mobility of smallholder in the Gayo highlands is also caused by the formation of a variety of habitus which then has an impact on variations in agricultural practices (Nazaruddin et al, 2020). This variation raises a different awareness process among the smallholder to their satisfaction regarding maximizing production yields from every hectare of plantation they have.…”

“…So that cooperative business processes in the Gayo highlands are easier to run in order to access the global market through the fair-trade coffee mechanism. However, as explained above, coffee farmers in Gayo do not get high selling prices apart from subsistence morals (Nazaruddin et al, 2020) as well as a lack of post-harvest technological inputs.…”