5 Tons Of Organic Fertilizer Produced Every Month For Plants In The IKN Crevice

JAKARTA - The farmer group in Paser Regency, East Kalimantan (Kaltim) produces 5 tons of organic fertilizer per month to serve the needs of the yard plants in the capital city of Nusantara (IKN). The organic fertilizer production that we are working on is relatively new, namely starting from the construction in mid-May or only about three months until now," said a member of the Amanah Ali Muchsin Forest Farmers Group (KTH), Antara, Sunday, August 11. Ali Muchsin who is also the Chairman of the Community Empowerment Institute (LPM) of Kerang Dayo Village, Batu Engau District, continued, in these three months his party has produced 15 tons (5 tons per month), then packed in sacks weighing 10 kg per sack. Each packaging is sold for Rp. 35 thousand so that the total gross income for these three months reached Rp. 52.5 million, or Rp. 17.5 million per month, so this could be an inspiration for farmer groups and other residents to make solid organic fertilizers. Previously, Saturday (10/8) when making a presentation in the framework of the Community Mutual Mutual Cooperation Competition (BBGRM) The East Kalimantan Provincial Level at the Kerang Dayo Village Office, he said that from gross income of Rp17.5 million per month, after deducting operations and others, net income was approximately 50 percent.

This advantage is classified as high because for raw materials there is no need to buy, but it is already available around such as from palm oil waste in the form of tangkos, pelepah, bungkil, and serasa, even various weathered wood and wood saw waste have become raw materials for this organic fertilizer. As for the BBGRM Competition held by the East Kalimantan Community Empowerment and Village Government Service (DPMPD), Kerang Village was included in the top three of this competition so that the East Kalimantan assessment team carried out field verification to ensure the truth of the documents previously verified by the team.The BBGRM Assessing Team is led by the Drivers of the Young Experts DPD Kaltim Helvin Sjafruddin, while the assessment team comes from various elements such as DPMPD, East Kalimantan LPM, and the East Kalimantan Community Empowerment Cadre Communication Forum (Forkom KPM). Various things have been done in this competition include mutual cooperation in environmental areas, community, socies, socio-cultural, religious, and environmental fields, so that the economic development of organic fertilizer manufacturing is one of the assessment because it begins with mutual cooperation results, even this includes part of economic development innovation.