Teknologi Tepat Guna Pemanfaatan Serbuk Gergaji Dan Pupuk Tinja Sebagai Campuran Media Tumbuh Bibit Hutan Tanaman Rakyat

Abstract

The purpose of this community service activity is to produce qualified seeds of forest plants, reduce sawdust waste and human sewage, providing value-added sawdust and human sewage so that it becomes more useful, reducing the use of topsoil, thereby reducing topsoil dredging. This service activity was conducted in August to October 2014 at Pulau Beringin Village, District of Pondok Kelapa, Central Bengkulu. The targets of the activity are the members of farmers and members of the youth group. The activity uses methods of counseling, training and demonstration. Making the mixture media from sawdust and humanure for growing media of community plantation forest seedling in Pulau Beringin Village is one right step in the process of sawmill waste business and household waste. Making the growing medium mixture of these wastes in addition to add to the skills of the members of farmer groups and the youth institution in managing waste can also be used as an attempt to increase the income of members of farmers and members of the youth group in the village of Pulau Beringin. PENDAHULUANMasalah utama yang dihadapi dalam bidang kehutanan di Indonesia adalah kerusakan hutan yang sangat intensif. Kerusakan setiap tahun mencapai luas antara 900.000 -600.000 Ha. Kerusakan ini terutama disebabkan oleh kegiatan pembalakan atau eksploitasi, peladangan berpindah, perluasan lahan transmigrasi dan kebakaran hutan.Provinsi Bengkulu dengan luas wilayah 1.978.870 hektar termasuk salah satu wilayah yang kondisi lahan kritisnya cenderung meningkat dari waktu ke waktu. Provinsi Bengkulu mempunyai lahan kritis di dalam dan di luar kawasan hutan. Pada tahun 1998/1999 luas lahan kritis di dalam dan luar kawasan adalah 78.724 Ha dan 499.824 Ha (Sub Balai RLKT, 1999). Semenara itu berdasarkan hasil inventarisasi lahan kritis pada lahan kawasan budidaya pertanian di Provinsi Bengkulu terdapat 1.045.359 hektar lahan kritis yang terbagi atas sangat kritis 160.563 hektar, kritis 339.256 hektar, agak kritis