Strengthening Group: Entrepreneurship Reorientation Toward Development of Liberica Coffee

The district of Betara is one of independent transmigration district area in Province of Jambi. People used peat land for cultivated several agricultural commodities that considered to be suitable with the land coffee, areca nut and oil palm. Coffee is one of the commodities that has got indigenous certificate. Local government establishes Liberica coffee as potential commodity that is expected to be grown and enlarged by local people to be their own business. Until 2018, it was found that several parties involved in strengthening practices on Liberica farmers were feared to have an impact on the group's bias because it created increasingly high dependency. In fact, every intervention carried out should built the beneficiaries" entrepreneurial who can empower and develop the group itself in the future. Thus, beneficiaries will be able to become leverage to other farmers to develop their coffee farming. This report is based on experience and depth interview on accompanying Liberica farmer that focus on entrepreneurial issues from 2017 to 2018. Hence report and finding is present on more qualitative techniques