PROGRAM HIDROPONIK WIYONG SEBAGAI UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KETERAMPILAN BERCOCOK TANAM MASYARAKAT DESA

Abstract

The Wiyong Village community is one of the communities in the Cirebon Regency with the term working as a farmer. However, the economic level of the people is still low. In addition, most people are active as housewives and more productive costs prefer to migrate abroad, namely the potential of nature in agriculture is underutilized, such as narrow land use. The Wiyong Hydroponic Program is a service program carried out in Wiyong Village, Susukan Sub-District, Cirebon Regency in July, November 2017 as a farming medium. The existence of this program is based on village development grant programs carried out by Unswagati Cirebon Reasoning and Scientific UKM. In connection with this, the program has several objectives, namely: 1) Enhancing community skills in farming by empowering housewives through hydroponic planting media 2) Developing vegetable production from hydroponic growing media for food and market needs. This method of implementation, various problems, analysis of community conditions, community group mapping, socialization of hydroponic media, training, and guidance on hydroponics, public training programs, publication training, and training programs. The results obtained are: 1) The formation of positive activities is to wash hydroponic plants continuously. The community is involved in managing hydroponic plants and is directly involved with buildings that start with hydroponic media starting from seeding skills, checking nutrition and periodically treating hydroponic plants. 2) People can produce vegetables with superior vegetable quality. Meanwhile, the realization of Wiyong Hydroponic Agro-tourism that is developing from this sustainability program with various parties.