16 September 2021
Anonymous Writer
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The prospect of ruminant agribusiness (cattle, goats, sheep, and buffalo) is very promising in terms of technical, economic, and social aspects. From a technical perspective, the ruminant livestock business is quite developed and easily adapts to the environment. From an economic perspective, it has a large enough market share both to fulfill domestic needs and for export. Socially, cattle, goats, and sheep are already popular among farmers, and their meat is favored by the community (Hardianto and Sunandar, 2009).
Batu Melenggang Village is one of the villages in Hinai District, Langkat Regency, which has considerable agricultural and livestock potential. This potential has not been maximally utilized. One of the economic activities of the community in Batu Melenggang Village is farming and breeding, especially cattle and goat breeders. Farmers raise livestock using a trapping system and a diumbaran (angonan) system. The large number of breeders and farmers made them take the initiative to form a group called “Kelompok Tani Berkat Tani” in 2017. The purpose of forming this group is to be more active and develop in agriculture and cattle breeding and to improve the welfare and economy of the group and the surrounding community.
When it was first formed on August 21, 2017, this group was a Beginner class farmer group with an inauguration certificate number 470-22/BM/II/2018, but in early February 2021, this farmer group was upgraded to the Advanced class based on a certificate issued by the Ministry of Agriculture with certificate number 662/DISTAN PANGAN/KPP-II/2021. Currently, there are 19 members of the “Berkat Tani” farmer group, with the education level of the majority of group members being high school (8 people), junior high school (5 people), elementary school (3 people), D3 (1 person) and S1 (2 people).
Activities carried out by the farmer group are regular group meetings and meetings with extension workers every month. The Berkat Tani Farmer Group has also received assistance from the government in the form of 15 goats in 2018. This assistance continues to grow, and currently, the profits obtained from the development of goats have been used as capital to make a mini-concentrate factory.
The Saung, where members gather to hold monthly meetings, although only a simple hut, is now also equipped with a fish pond and chili plant cultivation. Based on the results of discussions of farmer group members at several routine group meetings, they want to develop the vacant land around the farmer group's saung into an educational tourism park. This was motivated by the fact that many school-age children in Batu Melenggang Village and other areas interact more with gadgets when they come home from school. In addition, children who are still at an early age (3-5 years old) have also used gadgets as game tools.
Based on this, the Institute for Community Service of the Universitas Sumatera Utara, through the Non-PNBP community service program in the 2020 Regular Mono Year scheme chaired by Prof. Dr. Ir. Elisa Julianti, MSi, together with Prof.Dr.Ir. Zulkifli Lubis, MApp.Sc. are lecturer in the Food Science and Technology Study Program, and Dr. Nevy Diana Hanafi, SPt, MSi. from the Animal Husbandry Study Program and Dr. Nini Rahmawati, SP, MSi. from the Agrotechnology Study Program have held an activity entitled “Creation of an Educational Tourism Park for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Dr. Nini Rahmawati, SP, MSi. Nevy Diana Hanafi, SPt, MSi. from the Animal Husbandry Study Program and Dr. Nini Rahmawati, SP, MSi, from the Agrotechnology Study Program have held an activity entitled “Making an Agricultural, Livestock and Fisheries Educational Tourism Park in Batu Melenggang Village, Hinai District, Langkat Regency”. This community service activity is realized in several forms of activities, including the utilization of vacant land, fish ponds, and vegetable gardens around the saung as a location for educational tourism parks aimed at early childhood to adolescence. In this activity, assistance is provided in the form of building a garden, a sitting area for children who will visit, as well as a screen house for vegetable planting, training in horticulture vegetable planting, providing vegetable seeds and rack facilities for viticulture cultivation, and training in making concentrate feed for cattle. The activities were carried out from July to September 2021. The Berkat Tani Farmer Group felt the many benefits they had gained through this activity, apart from the construction of the Agricultural and Livestock Educational Tourism Park area, they also gained knowledge on how to make concentrate feed by utilizing agricultural waste around them, as well as increasing family income through verticulture vegetable cultivation. They have produced and used this concentrated feed to feed cattle owned by members of the farmer group, and some of it is sold to farmers outside the farmer group.
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