MEMBANGUN MODEL AGROEDUWISATA LAHAN KERING MELALUI PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT DESA BABAU KABUPATEN KUPANG

Abstract

The concept of developing agro-tourism is one of the strategies to improve the welfare of the community by matching all the resources owned through integrated activities between education, agriculture and tourism or recreation. The long-term goal is to maximize the variety of local potential that is owned in an area to improve community welfare and the short-term goal of developing dryland agro-tourism in the village of Babau, Kupang Regency through community empowerment. To achieve this goal the community is given knowledge and skills through education and training in the cultivation and production of agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries and fruit orchards. Location determination by considering the land area that has not been cultivated is quite high, most of the population are farming, the use of appropriate technology is still limited, the number of poor households is quite high, the cattle population which is the superior product is still low. The method used to achieve the goal is through education and training / counseling activities. The material provided is the technology of Intensification of Organic-Based Control Aerobic Rice (IPAT-BO), livestock technology, forage crop cultivation of the Three Strata System (STS) model and fruit plants, forage processing and Completely-Plus Feed making technology (PK -P). The results achieved showed the attendance of 90% of participants while the response of participants was 70-80% actively asking questions and very enthusiastic in conducting demonstration plots. Conclusion the results of education and training in order to develop dryland agro-tourism in the village of Babau, Kupang, are potential enough to be realized and targeted at the end of the second year or the beginning of the 3rd year can be visited as an agro tourism facility as well as educational and agribusiness resources to improve the community economy.