Besides that, it is also an effort to empower the people who are on the outskirts of the Batang Gadis National Park. The planting of Sumatran Mandailing Arabica Coffee is also in line with land conservation efforts with the concept of Agroforestry where the shade planted is forest wood plants and shade plants that are intentionally planted and have the appropriate morphology for the plantations. Most of the Sumatran Mandailing Arabica Coffee plantations are located in the vegetation around the forest which is a buffer (puffer) of the Batang Gadis National Park. Sumatran Mandailing Arabica Coffee” is produced from Arabica coffee plants that are planted in the highlands of the Mandailing land covering an altitude between 900 – 1,400 meters above sea level. While Angkola coffee (Ankola) is described as follows: formerly a Government coffee large fat beans, making a dull roast second only to Mandhelings it has a heavy body and rich, musty flavour. Mandailing coffee (Mandheling) is described in the book as follows: the best coffee in the world, also the highest priced formerly a Government coffee yellow to brown, large-sized bean, dully roast but free from quakers it is of heavy body, exquisite flavor and aroma. Ukers (New York, 1922), Mandailing coffee and Angkola coffee are the world’s best coffees and have the highest prices on the international market.

According to the book ‘All About Coffee’ by William H.

In the Mandialing community, coffee is better known as Java Coffee, Arabic Coffee (Pakantan), Godang Coffee (Ulu Pungkut). The entry of the VOC in Pakantan District carried out Arabica coffee planting with seeds introduced from the island of Java. The VOC entered Tanah Mandailing, precisely in the Pakantan District, to carry out coffee trading and coffee planting activities by utilizing labor from the surrounding community. in Mandailing land, precisely in Pakantan District, it was the first Arabica Coffee plantation area in Sumatra.

From several sources, it can be found that if we trace a little history that Arabica Coffee was brought by the Dutch to Indonesia in 1699.

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