IPB University provides access on food security and sustainable agriculture and aquaculture knowledge, skills or technology to local farmers and food producers. There are several platform and program to local farmers and food producers, namely: DigiTani (Digital Agricultural Extension), Sekolah Peternakan Rakyat (School of Community’s Livestock), One Village One CEO, Klinik Tanaman, and training for ornamental fish producers.
DigiTani
IPB launched a platform to educate farmers, DigiTani (Digital Agricultural Extension). This platform contains videos, infographics, and everything about agriculture knowledge. IPB DigiTani will be adaptable with the era and the needs of farmers nowadays. IPB has the vision to be the center of information and innovation in sustainable agriculture
Sekolah Peternakan Rakyat (School of Community’s Livestock)
The Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM) IPB University visited Tadulako University (Untad) in order to invite LPPM Untad to jointly develop the People’s Animal Husbandry School (SPR) and community service activities in Central Sulawesi.
https://lppm.ipb.ac.id/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Panduan-SPR.pdf
IPB Establish Petani Millenial by CEO School One Village One CEO Program
IPB accompanied young farmers at ‘Desa sejahtera’ to develop their village. This program relates to IPB’s vision for 2019-2045, “to be a technosocio-entrepreneurial university”. CEO School is focused on developing millennial’s motivation to build a business unit in the village to be a bigger unit or to be a Badan Usaha Milik Desa (BUMDes)’s companion.
Klinik Tanaman
Like humans and animals, plants also need clinics to treat illness/health problems. The Plant Clinic, which is under the auspices of the Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB, was established as an agricultural institutional innovation, which is a contribution from IPB as a complaint center to address plant health problems. Handled by six experts on disease, pests, and Integrated Pest Management as core staff, and fully supported by students and plant protection experts at the Faculty of Agriculture, IPB. Equipped with its own operational laboratory and mobile car, as well as 10 research laboratories of the Department of Plant Protection, and other laboratories at IPB.
Since its establishment, several achievements that deserve to be shared by the Plant Clinic of IPB to the community and the Indonesian agricultural world. Up to now, the clinic has handled 2240 cases of plant health problems from various professional circles, from all over Indonesia for the last 10 years, Disseminate technology through action research to tackle major pests/diseases in rice (6 districts in Java), chili, shallots, potatoes, cabbage, oranges and sengon, and Contribute to provide solutions to pest/disease explosions that are a national problem. For example, in response to the 2010-2011 brown planthopper explosion that threatened rice production, a National Workshop on Brown Planthopper Control was conducted, and the Implementation of a Broad Scale Brown Planthopper Control Model (supported by I-MHERE B2.C.IPB).
https://ptn.ipb.ac.id/cms/en/page/plant-clinic
IPB University Accompanied Ornamental Plant Farmers to Export their Products
IPB University accompanied ornamental plant farmers at Sukamantri Village Bogor. More than 120 farmers attend this event. Nowadays, almost 90 percent of the total land is planted with melon, pineapple, banana, and other ornamental plants. Sukamantri village is used for all farmers to educate themselves and test new variants of ornamental plants.
https://agrozine.id/pendampingan-petani-tanaman-hias-di-sukamantri/