The PPK Ormawa IAAS LC UB team had the opportunity to visit directly by Central Reviewers from the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education. The team from IAAS LC UB was one of 160 ormawa in Indonesia that was deemed worthy of the progress reporting stage so that they passed to the next stage, namely visitation.
PPK Ormawa IAAS LC UB Supervisor, Firman Jaya, S.Pt., MP, revealed that the Visitation of Ormawa IAAS LC UB was held on Tuesday, (14/11/2023) in Pandansari Village, Poncokusumo District, Malang Regency. This activity lasted for approximately 1 hour with a series of events in the form of field observations, presentation of the results of the activity, and interviews with the reviewer team with the village.
Not only members of IAAS LC Ormawa PPK Team and the village attended this visitation activity, support from representatives of IAAS LC UB Ormawa, Accompanying Lecturers, UB Internal Reviewers, as well as external partners accompanied the visitation activity to welcome reviewers from the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education.
External partners that have been collaborated with include P4S Bengkel Dream, Fisheries Service, BPP Agriculture, and BSIP Citrus and Subtropical Plants.
IAAS LC UB brings three main activities that are applied to Pandansari Village community, namely Irrigation, Cultivation and Waste Utilization. These three activities are fully integrated with energy and land efficiency efforts.
Irrigation is carried out as a solution to water management problems on dry land, namely by installing an IoT-based automatic drip irrigation system and creating rainwater storage ponds as a source of irrigation water in the dry season. The holding pond is also used as a medium for cultivating catfish using a biofloc system where the fish harvest will be processed into processed food with marketable value to improve the economy and skills of the community.
In addition, waste from catfish will be used as nutrition for the growth of azolla which also acts as a natural filter for biofloc pond water. It doesn’t stop there, the azolla plant will be used as a mixture of animal feed where waste from livestock will be processed into liquid organic fertilizer (POC) for the growth of orange fields. Thus, all aspects of activities focus on orange land as a superior commodity in Pandansari Village with the hope of increasing farmers’ income through the application of technology that reduces operational costs for land maintenance.
“This Ormawa PPK activity is very useful as a forum for developing organizational capacity to be more meaningful for social and environmental matters as well as increasing knowledge with direct application to the community,” said Esa as an IAAS LC UB Functionary who is also part of IAAS LC UB Ormawa PPK Implementation Team Member.
With these various activities, PPK Ormawa IAAS LC UB Team has produced products including Liquid Organic Fertilizer (POC), Eco-Enzyme, Fish Probiotic Medicine, ‘LeNugget’ Catfish Nuggets, and ‘Terlibas’ Catfish Sauce. All these products have been disseminated and workshops have been carried out to the residents of Pandansari village regarding how to make them and how to apply them.
Moreover, orange fields that have irrigation systems installed or as demonstration plots can be managed independently by village residents. This includes maintenance of catfish cultivation, automatic watering via an Android application, as well as the use of by-products.
“Later, in December, the IAAS LC UB Ormawa PPK Team will leave for the 2023 Ormawa Abdidaya Award at the University of Jember as the only and first Ormawa Team from Brawijaya University to qualify for that stage.” Said Fauzi as head of IAAS LC UB PPK Ormawa Implementation Team (UB PR/ Trans. Iir)
