Pelatihan Pembuatan Kompos dan Media Tanam untuk Peningkatan Kompetensi dan Keterampilan Mahasiswa

Abstract

The training activities for making compost and planting media aim to increase student knowledge regarding the use of waste in compost and the use of the MA-11 bioactivator, guiding students on how to make compost from various agricultural waste raw materials available in various places where students are, increasing competence and skills and encouraging students to become entrepreneurs, and encouraging the use of agricultural waste to be turned into compost which can be used to increase soil capacity. This training activity is carried out using lectures and direct practice in the field, namely making compost from cow manure, rice straw, and leaf waste collected from the campus environment. Before carrying out the activity, students received an explanation about the materials for making compost, and they were also given a guide on how to make compost. The results of training include: students from the Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, USK have gained knowledge about making compost fertilizer and planting media and can see firsthand the results of compost fertilizer production, students from the Department of Soil Science, USK Faculty of Agriculture, were very enthusiastic about taking part in the training and hobby of making compost fertilizer and planting media, there is an increase in students' knowledge, competence and skills after participating in this training, and we hope that this activity can continue in the future with various new knowledge about other organic fertilizers.