Aplikasi Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) untuk Mewujudkan Pertanian yang Sehat di Desa Buantan Lestari

Abstract

Buantan Lestari Village is located in Bunga Rayat District, where most of the people are farmers. In the village there are many bamboo trees. Most bamboo trees only have their stems taken. Villagers do not know the benefits of bamboo tree roots. Bamboo tree roots are waste from bamboo plants. Bamboo belongs to the grass family, which may explain why bamboo has such a high growth rate. This means that when bamboo is harvested, it will grow back quickly without disturbing the ecosystem so that the roots of the bamboo tree will only become waste that accumulates because its utilization is still not optimal.

Bamboo tree roots contain Pseudomonas flourences bacteria and Bacillus polymixa bacteria which play an active role in the fermentation process as a substitute for EM4. Therefore, the Community Service team from the Faculty of Agriculture, Agribusiness Study Program carried out outreach on the use of bamboo roots into liquid organic fertilizer. Liquid organic fertilizer is produced from fermentation of organic materials with the help of waste microorganisms such as bamboo roots. Bamboo root extract combined with granulated sugar and em4 bioactivator. Organic fertilizer plays a role in improving the physical, chemical and biological elements of the soil. The fermentation process in making liquid organic fertilizer is a process of decomposition or breakdown of organic materials carried out under certain conditions by fermentative microorganisms called bioactivators. This activity was carried out in Buantan Lestari Village by Gapoktan Karya Mukti