Feasibility studies of intensively tea plantation on West Java

Abstract

The activities in tea plantations throughout the 2000s until now show important conditions to be addressed. First, there was a large conversion of tea plants. The Central Bureau of Statistics noted that the conversion of tea plants reached an average of 3,000 Ha per year. Second, the quality of Indonesian tea plantation production is classified in the good quality so that it can be sold at a fairly good price. Third, conversion occurs generally in the people’s tea plantations and state-owned plantations. This is inversely proportional to the privately-owned tea plantations that are growing well. This study aims to analyze how much profit obtained on tea plantations. By knowing the benefits, we will know whether the tea plantations in Indonesia are feasible or not. The results showed that at low productivity (less than 2000 Ha / year), tea plantations were no longer feasible to cultivate, in terms of both the tea production and the quality of tea.