Pengelolaan Beras Organik: Persediaan dan Permintaan

Abstract

Increased health awareness causes the demand for organic food to increase. Organic farming management is something that needs to be considered to maintain the availability of this need. The service carried out aims to help farmer groups who become service partners in order to improving management of agricultural products. The scope of focus in this service is their superior products, namely organic black rice, organic brown rice, fragrant pandan rice and mentik milk rice. Although it is healthier, it is less popular among farmers. This is due to the difficulty of implementing organic farming, and products that are considered more fragile than non-organic products. Complaints that arise regarding the appearance of lice or fungi in organic rice are a problem faced by farmer groups in marketing organic rice. The method of devotion carried out consists of two main stages. In the first stage, the service team accompanies farmer groups in coordinating food durability testing for main products. The results of food security testing greatly affect the policies taken in managing the product. In the second stage, the community service team provided training in the formulation of policies that could be taken to overcome the barriers identified in the management of organic agricultural products in this farmer group. The result of this community service is the policy of determining rice time storage which was not considered in inventory management before. In this community service, farmer groups also simulate the application of e-farming applications to provide an overview of how inventory management is related to the sales and distribution process.