Peningkatan Produktivitas Lahan Melalui Budidaya Jahe Merah Sistem Bag Culture pada Lahan Pekarangan di Wilayah Bekas Tambang Batu Apung Dusun Cerorong – Kecamatan Pringgarata Kabupaten Lombok Tengah.

Abstrak

The main problem faced by the people in Cerorong Hamlet is the lower productivity of their agricultural land due to pumice mining. Therefore, to overcome this problem, it is necessary to increase land productivity by utilizing yards. One of the efforts is through the development of red ginger cultivation using a bag culture system (large polybag) in the community's yard. This community service activity aims to provide counseling, the practice of developing red ginger farming system bag culture based on red ginger. This community service activity uses the Participatory Action approach, which is a method that actively involves participants in the implementation of all of these activity programs. service activities. The counseling participants showed a positive response and participated actively in all the programmed activities. There was an increase in the cognitive and affective domains of the counseling participants, both knowledge related to the economic potential and benefits derived from red ginger. Participants realized that even though the land was less fertile, red ginger could be cultivated using the bag culture system in their yards. The psychomotor aspects of the counseling/service participants also increased, where the counseling participants were able to carry out red ginger cultivation techniques using the bag culture system.