Educating farmers and poor people in transforming abundant apple snails into innovative products with added value
Do you know ? APPLE SNAIL (KEONG MAS) _
Apple Snail is still considered the most harmful pest by many farmers in Indonesia. Huge numbers reach 90-150 pounds per acre per month. Rapid breeding ability and the ability to take up plant stems out overnight, become a threat to farmers, especially at the beginning of the rice planting season. Consequently, this requires extra handling, rice farmers have to clean up the "broken rice plant" from pest snails, then buy the seeds again and re-planting their fields. This is very detrimental in terms of time and cost of course. Farmers today take one by one of these apple snails and after collected will be disposed of (buried) only. This can sometimes cause new problems, the odor left behind. By looking at the background of many of the problems faced by the farming community, SAUNG KEOSA will do socialization and education that this pest can be leveraged into something with added value. It can be utilized as processed foods like crackers and snails Kremes. In addition, these snails can also be used as fertilizer and animal feed. In the process of educating one of the things SAUNG KEOSA will do is provide guidance in the way of processing those innovative products.
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social community which educates and socializes to the farmers and poor people on the use of pest apple snails that are not worth into something more valuable, so that once can reduce the number of snails pest population and generate additional income for farmers