The Economic Improvement of Farmers in Sei Mencirim Through Independent Cassava Chips Industry
- DOI
- 10.2991/icosop-17.2018.81How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Farmers Group, Independent Industry, enterpeurnership
- Abstract
Abundant agricultural products did not necessarily provide anincreased economic income of the farmers in Sei Mencirim Village, District of Sunggal, Deli Serdang. It is caused by low selling prices of agricultural products in the market, one of which is the result of cassava farming. The farmers have tried some innovation to increase the income of their household economy by creating an independent industrial cassava chips. However, in practice, the group is constrained by the lack of innovation of the products so that the products can not compete with the similar products on the market. Besides, independent industries are also not professionally managed. This then implements an independent industry did not go well.The program aims to improve the local economy through standalone independent industry of chips cassava, so creating enterpeurnership skill for each member who participated in each the training, increasing Sei Mencirim farmers' collectivity, stimulating their ability to see all forms of business opportunities through the use of natural resources in the surrounding areas, improving the ability to be in innovative and marketable processing of cassava chips, therefore increasing their income.The results obtained through these activities is that it increases collectivity in Sei Mencirim farmers, their spirit of entrepreneurship and their ability to see business opportunities that exist around them.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Fajar Utama Ritonga AU - Hairani Siregar PY - 2017/12 DA - 2017/12 TI - The Economic Improvement of Farmers in Sei Mencirim Through Independent Cassava Chips Industry BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social and Political Development (ICOSOP 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 534 EP - 537 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosop-17.2018.81 DO - 10.2991/icosop-17.2018.81 ID - UtamaRitonga2017/12 ER -