Cibening Village has beautiful nature, fresh air and people work hard. The people plant cassava, rice and banana. Goldteak planted Solomon Teak, Mahogany, Acacia and fruit trees. Cibening village looks green and the air is fresh especially in rainy season. Animal come just to to the plantation because there is no more rubber plantation, it is already substituted by coconut palm plantation.
Rice and cassava harvest has always been the hope of the villagers because the harvest is the main income besides working outside the village as a factory workers in Sukabumi or in other areas.
For the past five years, people have felt that summer is longer and the rainy season is followed by landslides around Cibening village. Compared to ten years ago when the Goldteak plantations were opened, during the rainy season, water came down from the hills and damaged the rice fields and the harvest.
But now when Goldteak’s Teak trees and other hard trees are already big, water is no longer a problem in rainy season . The only problem is when there is a heavy rain and river can not carry the water, it creates the landslide on the river bank. This year two bridges in Cibening village were damaged because the river becomes shallow and rain water broke the bridge foundation.
Goldteak’s workers with the villagers work together fixed the bridge and now the bridge can be used again and the rain becomes a blessing for Cibening village.
