Indonesia Eyes N. Africa for Farm Exports After EU Forest Law
A farmer harvests coffee cherries at a plantation in Temanggung regency, Central Java, Indonesia.
Photographer: Dimas Ardian/BloombergIndonesia is scouting fresh markets including North Africa for its small-scale coffee and cocoa farmers at risk of losing access to the European Union under the bloc’s new deforestation rules, according to a senior government official.
“We are helping now to find other markets,” Indonesia Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Arif Havas Oegroseno said in an interview on Thursday. “There are new markets for coffee and cacao in North Africa.”