Although being the biggest economy in South East Asia, Indonesia still employs a big part of its population in agriculture.
North Sumatra is not an exception. This is tropical land, warm and humid. It is also a mountainous one. Sumatran coffee, globally famous and widely spread around Gayo mountains and Lake Toba, gets vantage from this high altitude.
Down the valleys, tropicals fruits, chillies, onions, garlic or cacao are also recurrent crops.
This is a small scale agriculture, land is divided in patches rarely bigger than a couple of hectares. Poverty, widely spread, is specially attached to those areas lacking a fertile soil.
Although peasants live off the land with dignity; hard work and scarce profits are the norm.
