Building Sustainability

by Muhammad Aditya Kurnia

Building Sustainability

Unpri and Unand Implement Kosabangsa Program to Empower Sorghum Farmers

Prima Indonesia University (Unpri) Medan and Andalas University (Unand) Padang are implementing the Social Collaboration for Building Society (Kosabangsa) program from the DRTPM funds of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemdikbud Ristek) in 2023.

The activity was carried out in Pekan Tanjung Beringin Village, Tanjung Beringin District, Serdang Bedagai Regency (Sergai), North Sumatra, Thursday (11/23/2023), targeting farmer groups based on food crop agriculture, and livestock, which manage sorghum commodities.

Proposal team Kosabangsa from Unpri consists of Purnama Yanti Purba S.E, M.M as the chairperson with members Rafida Khairani SEI, M.Si, M.M, and Herlin Munthe S.Pd, M.Pd, M.Ak from the Faculty of Economics.

Meanwhile, the accompanying team from UNAND consists of Prof. Dr. Ir Khasrad M.Si with Dr. Armansyah S.P, M.P, and Rusdimansyah S.Pt, M.Si. Purnama Yanti in the activity which was marked by the handover of sorghum cultivation equipment and animal feed said that this program is entitled "Sorghum Processing as a Solution for Food Security and Animal Feed in Improving the Economy of Pekan Tanjung Beringin Village, Serdang Bedagai Regency".

"The purpose of this program is to improve the level of business of farmer groups that have been planting sorghum, but in limited quantities, to expand their business land and increase yields, as well as the utility value of production results," said Purnama. He said that there were two farmer groups that received the benefits of the program, namely the Mekar Tani Farmer Group and the Sriwijaya Farmer Group, both of which came from Pekan Tanjung Beringin Village.

"In the early stages of this program, assistance was provided in the form of production support tools, later continued with coaching and mentoring, so that this farmer group is truly independent," said Purnama. Not only focusing on the production of sorghum raw materials, he continued, but later they will also direct post-production skills, especially for making animal feed and liquid sugar from sorghum stalk raw materials.

news adapted from: bisanews.id

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