THE UTILIZATION OF BANANA STEM FOR MAKING LIQUID ORGANIC FERTILIZER PEMANFAATAN BATANG PISANG UNTUK PEMBUATAN PUPUK ORGANIK CAIR

Abstract

Tanjung Durian Pasar Baru village, Bayang subdistrict, Pesisir Selatan district is one of thelocation for the Students Community Service - Community Empowerment Learning EkasaktiUniversity in 2019. This location is an agricultural area, including: rice plant, chilli, cucumber, andbanana. The habits of the farmers during this time, banana stems have been cut down are left torot in the banana groves. Eventhough banana stem can be used, one of which is for liquid organicfertilizer. Therefore, this community devotion is carried out with the objective: (1) to increase thefarmers motivation to make liquid organic fertilizer from banana stem, (2) to improve the farmersknowledge and skills about liquid organic fertilizer from banana stem, and (3) to encourage thefarmers to use liquid organic fertilizer from banana stem, to reduce the use of inorganic fertilizer.In order to achieve these objective, the method used are: counseling, practice, monitoring andevaluation. The results achieved show that the activities are going well and the farmers have highmotivation to continue making liquid organic fertilizer, seen from the activies of re-making liquidorganic fertilizer by the community. The farmers knowledge increases about the understanding,advantages, disadvantages of liquid organic fertilizer and the farmers skills in making and usingliquid organic fertilizer from banana stem above 70%.