Technical study of small-scale coconut husk decomposing equipment to reduce coconut husk waste in North Sulawesi

Abstract

Coconut in North Sulawesi are known to produce food products from coconut flesh. However, coconut husks which is 35% of the whole coconut, is still considered waste for farmer groups. In some areas the husk is thrown away or burned. When it is burned the problems faced by the people around the area, some complain about the smoke generated. This study aims to study how to utilize the coconut husk to become a more useful product and to study and test the manufactured equipment to process coconut husk become coconut fiber and coconut peat. The study showed that the equipment is very promising to produce cocopeat and coconut fiber in small scale sector and very potential to reduce husk waste in the field. The products can be made to other derivative products that have economic value and to avoid smoke problems due to environmental smoke due to burned the coconut husk.