PENGEMBANGAN PRODUK OLAHAN LABU KUNING BAGI PETANI BENIH LABU KUNING DI KECAMATAN TEGALSARI, KABUPATEN BANYUWANGI

Abstract

Tegalrejo village is one of distric that produced yellow pumpkin largest in Banyuwangi. Most of people in Tegalrejo village were yellow pumpkin farmers who produced seed of yellow pumpkin for sale. Selling seeds of yellow pumpkin has been coorporate contract system with PT. Panah Merah Jember. Needed seeds was provided by PT. Panah Merah Jember while the land, production equipments and worker was provided by farmers. Waste production of seeds yellow pumpkin was fresh flesh of yellow pumpkin fruit. As long as, it just discarded by farmers if the harvest time yellow pumpkin. Even, it can be used feed to cows, goats and chicken.  

Methods:  Community Partnership Program is implemented by the team of State Polytechnic of Jember aims to increase the economic value of pumpkin by producing various processed yellow pumpkin eggroll, Bolu steamed, roti tawar, foodbar, cookies and jelly drink drinks. The types of training provided is to provide training for production step of various processed pumpkin, packaging training yellow pumpkin products, marketing strategy training, mentoring and monitoring and evluation of PKM.

Results: Participants consisted of wife’s of farmers and they are 20 persons. The results of this activity was they can made variant product from yellow pumpkin fruit for example steamed cake, eggroll, cookies, food bar, bread and jelly drink. After they made the various product pumpkin, they can sale in e-commere like shopee, so they get extra income.  Monitoring carried out by visiting some of the participants in the pengabmas. The process of mentoring and monitoring has resulted in a PIRT filing document and PIRT result is PIRT number 206-3510021110-23.

Conclusion: Increased knowledge of participans to produced variant product from yellow pumpkin. The product of yellow pumpkin can sale in e-commere and they get extra income.

    

Keywords : yellow pumpkin fruit,  variant product of yellow pumpkin, e-commere, extra income