“OMAH TELO”: PENGEMBANGAN PRODUK BERBASIS UBI JALAR DI PROGRAM STUDI ILMU DAN TEKNOLOGI PANGAN

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<p>Tracer study which has been done by Department of Food Science and<br />Technology showed that only 62,5% of graduates have related job to the major, while<br />from 62,5% that have, only 10% become businessman/entrepreneur. This matter<br />necessarily become a shared duty of the study program to escalate student<br />entrepreneurial spirit since early on. Step that had been taken by the study program in<br />order to evoke student entrepreneurial spirit has not given maximum result because<br />students could not apply their sciene of entrepreneurship in a business unit practice<br />directly. Therefore, Department of Food Science and Technology is commited to evoke<br />and escalate student entrepreneurial spirit by forming a production unit named “Omah<br />Telo”. This program is directed to obtain reveneu generating for the research group in<br />particular, Department of Food Science and Technology in general and also build<br />technopreneurship sprit in HIMAGHITA. In its first year, this program has been<br />successfully build up a productive business unit “Omah Telo” with chips and sweet<br />potato flour as the main products, also tela-tela, sweet potato stick, ice cream and<br />schotel as the additional products. The entrepreneurship talkshow, food industry<br />management, and also marketing techniques have established the technopreneurship<br />spirit of the students. PIRT permission and online marketing could increase the product<br />marketing of IbPTK production.<br />Keyword: omah telo, technopreneurship, sweet potato</p>