Conversion of Paddy Straw into Fertilizer and Animal Feed at Tanjung Rejo Village, Deli Serdang Regency, Medan, Indonesia

Yurnaliza, Ternala Alexander Barus, Mayang Sari Yeanny

2018

Abstract

Community service activities was conducted in agricultural area of Tanjung Rejo Village in Deli Serdang Regency, Medan, Indonesia. The aim of this activity was to improved and to trained the farmer and rancher knowledge about converted technology of paddy straw to organic fertilizer and animal feed. The specific target was to help farmer and rancher community be able to produce fodder and organic fertilizer by their self, and prospected to improve their welfare. The community service activities were consist of counseling, training, practicing of paddy straw conversion methods directly in paddy fields and evaluation of results. The counseling was conducted in meeting hall of the village head's office of Tanjung Rejo Village and attended by headman, farmers and ranchers of village. The head team and members of community service from Department Biology of Universitas Sumatera Utara were explained the theory and techniques of conversion of paddy straw become organic fertilizer and animal feed. Some villagers asked some questions and after discussion, the farmers and ranchers practiced the straw chopper methods. The training has done proactively by the village communites. One unit of straw chopper machine were granted to the villagers. Monitoring and evaluation of paddy straw conversion activity were also done in the paddy field location. Community service teams were needed to confirm that the conversion paddy straw activities were done well. Monitoring and counseling also conducted by phone to provide solutions if the villagers had the problems. Generally, the results of community service activities were successful. The farmers and rancher were able to convert paddy straw to animal feed and organic fertilizer respectively. Another benefit of this activity was to established of good relationships between communities and Universities peoples. The members of community service could be applied and shared their knowledge to the communities.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yurnaliza., Barus T. and Yeanny M. (2018). Conversion of Paddy Straw into Fertilizer and Animal Feed at Tanjung Rejo Village, Deli Serdang Regency, Medan, Indonesia.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 1057-1061. DOI: 10.5220/0010097410571061

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={Yurnaliza and Ternala Alexander Barus and Mayang Sari Yeanny},
title={Conversion of Paddy Straw into Fertilizer and Animal Feed at Tanjung Rejo Village, Deli Serdang Regency, Medan, Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={1057-1061},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010097410571061},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - Conversion of Paddy Straw into Fertilizer and Animal Feed at Tanjung Rejo Village, Deli Serdang Regency, Medan, Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Yurnaliza.
AU - Barus T.
AU - Yeanny M.
PY - 2018
SP - 1057
EP - 1061
DO - 10.5220/0010097410571061