Technology Dissemination of Backyard Farming for Supporting Food Security in Palu Central Sulawesi

Abstract

The optimally of the backyard provide enormous benefits to support the nutritional needs of the family. It is one of strategies in gaining food security in the household and supporting the environment sustainability. The study was conducted in Palu Central Sulawesi in October 2021 as an evaluation survey of the technology dissemination for backyard optimization. The data were analyzed by Expected Food Pattern and scoring method for transferred technologies. The result shown that the technology dissemination increase the Food Pattern Expectation score from 74.2 to 78.0 and increase the family income up to 23%. The technologies’s implementation score consist of 20% in vertical farming, 27% in soil block nursery, 27% in the composition of planting media, 33% in nature pesticide, 27% in MOL production, and 20% in household waste composting. To increase the technology adoption, an assistance for the groups as a model and deployment for larger target are needed.