“Use this campus as an arena of discussions, sharing and training. Recently there was also a filed school on Sustainable Agriculture System that organized on Wednesdays to nurture farmers,” said Head of Technical Implementation Unit of Business and Agropreneur Development Faculty of Agriculture University of Brawijaya (FP-UB) Dr. Ir. Bambang tri Rahardjo, SU while opened Training on Management of Biological Agents and Their Implementation at the field level. On the occasion, he also introduced the Technical Implementation Unit he led by.
“We also have production unit that will generate biological agents, compost probiotics and farmer groups’ processed products,” he added. 3-hectare land areas that available also will be created as agroforestry model. It was the first time that the Technical Implementation Unit utilized as training centre of Business and Agropreneur Development Faculty of Agriculture University of Brawijaya (FP-UB). The technical implementation unit is located in Kasembon, Malang District on Tuesday (8/Mar/2016).
The training was followed by 47 participants consists of PPAH (Pusat Perbanyakan Agens Hayati/Reproduction Centre of Biological Agents) farmers, POPT (Pengamat Organisme Pengganggu Tanaman/Plant Pests Analysts), the delegates of Agricultural Department of Lamongan District and also representatives of Bappeda (Badan Perencanaan Daerah/Regional Planning Agency) of Lamongan District and also Department of Agriculture and Forestry of Lamongan District.
The speakers were originated from Pests and Plants Disease Department of FP-UB that consists of Dr. Ir. Gatot Mudjiono; Dr. Ir. Toto Himawan, SU; Moch. Syamsul Hadi, SP., MP and Catur Prabowo Widodo, A.Md., ST delivered theor presentations on biological agents and PPAH, Biological Agents Production Management, PHT refreshment and also Excellent Certification Introduction (GAP and GMP). [syamsul/waw/Humas UB/trans. Denok]
