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The 2 International Seminar of Science and Technology
“Accelerating Sustainable innovation towards Society 5.0”
ISST 2022 FST UT 2022
Universitas Terbuka

for production centres in particular. Indonesia is one of the world's
fourth largest coffee exporting countries with an 11% market share in
the world [4]. Farming development through farmer groups is one way
to accelerate the target. Better farming activities can be seen from the
improvements in farm productivity. Perceptions of farmer groups on
income levels consist of several categories, namely, Total production,
coffee quality, land area, production risk, labour, income, and
marketing.
Besides being exported, coffee is one of the agricultural commodities
consumed by many people in Indonesia. Coffee farmers are scattered
in several regions in Indonesia, one of which is in Kiarapedes District,
Purwakarta Regency. Coffee plants are one of the plantation
commodities that play an important role in the economy in Indonesia
for the community. This role can be in the form of opening job
opportunities and as a source of income for farmers.

2 METHODOLOGY
This research was conducted at the Barong Mulya Farmers Group in
Pusakamulya Village, Kiarapedes District, Purwakarta Regency.
Location selection is done purposively (deliberately). Based on the
consideration that Pusakamulya Village, Kiarapedes Subdistrict,
Purwakarta Regency is one of the centers of coffee production and
has good potential in coffee farming managed by farmer groups.
Research on the Barong Mulya farmer group in Pusakamulya Village,
Kiarapedes District, Purwakarta Regency was carried out by
quantitative research with a sample of 30 farmers. Techniques and
data collection instruments using the questionnaire method
(questionnaire).

3 RESULTS
Questionnaires were given to the Barong Mulya farmer group,
Pusakamulya Village, Kiarapedes District, Purwakarta Regency. The
characteristics of the Barong Mulya Coffee Farmers Group farmers
are the education level of most of them are high school students
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International Seminar of Science and Technology “Accelerating Sustainable
Towards Society 5.0