The launching ceremony consists of the opening, inauguration of Kragan Village as a rural sociology laboratory as a collaboration between Agricultural Extension & Communication Program (PKP) FP UNS, followed by tumpeng and ribbon-cutting ceremony by Kragan Village Chief, Widada, S.E., and Dr. Ir. Sugihardjo,M.S. To facilitate sales and increase product selling price, the launching also included an opening for a selling booth named Gantera kiosk.

Cici, a member of HM Pelita committee, explained that Legran product is produced from fresh catfish by the local housewives as the members of Gantera creative economy group

“The product has gone through a series of processes from recipe formulation and composition, quality improvement, price adjustment, interesting packaging, and consumer tasting. This product becomes one of the excellent products in the village with a selling power in the market,” Cici explained to uns.ac.id team on Thursday (8/12/2021).

The launching that was held on Wednesday (24/11/2021) becomes one of the events held by PHP2D HM Pelita Team UNS 2021, who have implemented a community service, especially in Kragan Village, to improve local welfare, solve problems, and grow local people creativity and participation. After the launch, the team conducted a workshop on the catfish cultivation method using bioflok system by fishery extension officer Harry. The last part of the ceremony was a direct survey in the bioflok and hydroponic area directly behind the inauguration site. The bioflok is used to cultivate several types of fish such as catfish, nila (Nile tilapia), mujair (Mozambique tilapia), and sepat (Trichogaster). The site is also used to cultivate bokcoy, water spinach, lettuce, and mustard green. The ceremony was concluded with a photo session.

Cici hoped that Legran product and Gantera creative economy group could reduce the unemployment in the village, increase people income, and increase fish consumption in Kragan village.

“(We) also expect that this product launching could become a means of branding and spirit for Kragan Village to continue innovating in using their potentials,” Cici concluded. Humas UNS

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The Team of Holistic Rural Development and Empowerment Program Tim Program (PHP2D), Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), captured this opportunity. The Team with 14 members provided an initiative to assist and train PKK members in Gondosuli Village to process the carrots into various processed foods with high selling prices.

PKK members are selected as the target of this program because the Team observed high enthusiasm from the members who also had participated in various village events, although they finance the activities with their personal funds. Therefore, the Team hoped that the training could educate and provide a business idea for PKK members to generate additional income in financing their activities.

In the training that runs from October to November 2021 under the supervision of Bhimo Rizky Samudro, S.E, M.Si, Ph.D., and collaboration with Agricultural Office Karanganyar, the PHP2D Team taught diverse food products from carrots, such as carrot brownies, nugget, noodles, gummy stick, and flour. The training was appreciated by the Head of Gondosuli Kidul Hamlet, Jarwo, who stated that the training provided a business idea for the PKK members.

“I appreciate and am happy with this event. I even enticed to apply the business idea on foods from carrots to empower the PKK members in Gondosuli village,” Jarwo said.

The foods introduced in training are selected because of their simple production and the equipment needed. The Team also helped the local people in marketing the products through digital marketing by creating accounts in Shopee and Instagram. The Team that won funding from the Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemdikbudristek) also shared the product information through their social media to reach wider marketing coverage.

“Hopefully, the program that we prepared for the village is useful and sustainable for Gondosuli people,” Yusuf said. Humas UNS

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PHP2D IAAS LC UNS program with Tanen Hamlet people, especially the housewives, started with program socialization in August 2021 to introduce their program, explain the flow of their empowerment program, and determine the production house. The production activities started on September and October 2021, and on Saturday (6/11/2021), they collected more than 500 packs of tea epiphytes tea. The team will continue increasing the production output and promote the product on Sunday (14/11/2021). A team member, Akmal, explained that the epiphytes tea they produced has several variants.

“The epiphytes tea (we) produced have tasty taste and several variants. The available variants are grouped into three groups, healthy variant, sweet variant, and superior variant,” Akmal explained to uns.ac.id team on Saturday (27/11/2012).

In addition to this tea product, the team also established a Women Farmers Group (KWT) Tanen Asri as an effort to ensure the sustainability of their tea production. KWT Tanen Asri has 151 members from Tanen Hamlet housewives who were actively participating in the program. Currently, the team and KWT Tanen Asri have produced more than 600 tea bags and will continue the production and market the product to improve the local economy. Akmal hoped that this program could facilitate the sustainability of their program in Tanen Hamlet.

“Hopefully, through the programs we implemented and targets achieved, PHP2D IAAS LC UNS Team could facilitate the sustainability of the program in Tanen Hamlet, especially in assistance so that (the local people) could be more independent in processing tea epiphytes,” Akmal stated. Humas UNS

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The PHP2D Himatika FMIPA UNS Team Leader, Bayu Purboutomo, explained that the mushroom potential in Jatirejo Village is overabundant, but the majority of farmers sell their mushroom directly, while they could process the mushroom into various food products.

“Moreover, in the pandemic situation, many mushroom products cannot be stored for a long time without pre-processed,” Bayu Purboutomo explained to uns.ac.id team on Wednesday (24/11/2021).

Considering the large post-harvest potential of the mushroom, the Team proposed an upstream to downstream program for mushroom production that consists of pre-processing of mushrooms into processed products to product marketing training. The Team also developed the baglog wastes into organic fertilizer. Some of the already implemented programs are mushroom processing into crispy mushrooms in Mungon-Mojodipo Hamlet, Jatirejo Village. This program was proposed to PHP2D 2021 and was started with socialization on working capital lending from PT. BKK Jawa Tengah branch Karanganyar.

The mushroom processing process could increase local people’s income, while the socialization aims to explain various services provided by PT. BKK Jawa Tengah that support local people’s innovation in the mushroom processing industry. PHP2D Himatika FMIPA UNS Team also conducted the fertilizer production training from baglog in an online program through the Zoom Meeting platform in the same hamlet. Both processing and fertilizer production training was attended by the mushroom farmers group and program implementing team.

The fertilizer production training was opened with an explanation on mushroom cultivation dan organic fertilizer production by the Agricultural and Fishery Office of Karanganyar District represented by Feriana Dwi Kurniawati, S.P., M.Si. In this socialization, the office shared that Karanganyar District has a program to assist and facility for farmers through her office. The training also educates the local people on the environmental impact of mushroom cultivation and empower them to produce fertilizer from baglog.

After the training programs that took around five months, the Team launched Jare Jamur product on Sunday (21/11/2021) in Jatirejo Village Hall under the theme of “Kula Nuwun Jatirejo: Launching Produk Jare Jamur” (Excuse Me Jatirejo: Launching of Jare Jamur Product). The grand closing event started with product introduction followed by handover from the Head of Mathematics Program to the Chief of Processing and fertilizer team of Jatirejo people. The launching was marked with a ribbon cutting ceremony by Jatirejo Village Chief Arry Widodo Yuliawan and the Head of Mathematics Program FMIPA UNS, Dr. Drs. Siswanto, M.Si. Humas UNS

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Novianto Yoga Wibisono, the PHP2D HM Pelita UNS Team Leader, stated that the biofloc pond could be used to cultivate 2,500 catfish seeds. The wastewater from the ponds is used for fertilizer in cultivating organic water spinach by the pool. “The tools needed to build the pond are pond base framework, rice husk, sand, and cement,” he explained to the uns.ac.id team on Monday (22/11/2021).

The program received a positive response from the village government and all village people. Kragan Village Chief, Widada, S.E., stated that his village and its government fully support all the positive activities held in the village.

The construction process was supervised by Sapto and Sarjono as the person in charge of Kragan Village biofloc development. The construction started with building the biofloc pond with a diameter of 2.5 meters, filling the pond with water, left behind the water for a week before adding the catfish seeds to ensure that the water was purified.

The water is then filtered and channeled through a drip fertigation system to irrigate chili plants around the biofloc pond owned by Kragan Village. The irrigation was prepared using pipes, PE hose, faucet, aquarium pump, T pipes, and L pipes. All of the stages are to support the integrated farming program implemented beforehand. The team added a zero-waste concept the reduce farming wastes.

The programs were expected to be implemented by all village people, especially in the application of zero waste to support sustainable farming. Humas UNS

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