Empowerment of Bendosari village society Sanankulon Blitar through increasing Jenang Buah productivity of Badan Usaha Milik Desa
Teti Estiasih1,*, Nur Istianah1 and Dego Yusa Ali 1
1Agricultural Products Technology, Brawijaya University, Jl.Veteran, Malang 65145, Indonesia
Abstract
Bendosari Village, Sanan Kulon District, Blitar Regency is one of the villages that were previously indicated as a food insecure village. Bendosari Village is a village with the main occupation of the population is in the agricultural sector. However, the area in this village is infertile so that the highest occupation of the population is as a freelance followed by agriculture. In order to change the status of the village, in 2016 BUMDes Makmur Abadi was established, with the aim of being an income generating unit to increase village income. The BUMDes business includes dairy products such as pasteurized milk and yogurt, also processed fruit products including fruit juice, fruit jenang buah, and educational tourism business related to superior dairy products. Jenang buah is the superior product of BUMDes Makmur Abadi. However, there many problems in producing jenang buah including raw material stock, manual processing, packaging also marketing and finance management. To overcome that problems this Doktor Mengabdi program provide (1) increasing the availability of raw material stock through the introduction of techniques for making fruit paste and its storage by facilitating chest freezer; (2) increasing production capacity automatic jenang mixer machine; (3) product performance improvement through blanching techniques and also packaging and label improvement; (4) improvement of marketing management. The achievement target of this activity is to increase fruit jenang production from 2,500 packs / month to 10,000 packs, the application of fruit raw material stocking techniques, market expansion, and partners using packaging labels according to BPOM regulations.
Keywords: BUMDes; independent village; inventory; jenang buah, production capacity
Topic: Sustainable Agriculture and Agricultural Engineering