MAKING OYSTER MUSHROOM CHIPS AND NUGGET FOR NON-PRODUCTIVE COMMUNITY IN MULYAHARJA SUBDISTRICT, SOUTH BOGOR

Abstract

Mulyaharja Village is an area with an area of 477,005 Ha with a population that is quite dense as many as 16,475 people with a very rapid population development. It is known that around 40% of the people in the Mulyaharja neighborhood are categorized as uncertain income. Uncertain people are non-productive people, the majority of them are housewives who are members of the Family welfare improvement group. In an effort to improve the welfare of the Mulyaharja community the Chemistry Study Program of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences provides an alternative program of making products such as chips and nuggets from oyster mushrooms. This program can provide added value when viewed from 2 different sides. First, through the processing of oyster mushrooms, it can overcome the welfare problems of farmers because their crops can be processed into products that have a higher selling value. Second, it can overcome the problem of people with uncertain income to become entrepreneurs of products from oyster mushrooms. The outputs will be generated from this program is a community empowerment model, including the opening of insights from non-productive people regarding oyster mushroom business opportunities, producing skilled workers in making chips and oyster mushroom nuggets, producing high quality products and ready to be marketed and open the opportunity to be recommended to become a small independent business that has more potential so that it can increase the income of the people who have an impact on improving welfare. In addition, the expected outcomes are in the form of scientific works in the form of journal publications.