An Analysis of Innovation on the Utilization of Cascara by Coffee Farmers
Date
2020-06-19Author
KOMARIA, Nurul
SURATNO, Suratno
PRIHATIN, Jekti
SUDARTI, Sudarti
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The process of coffee production yields a lot of waste. Based on the
observation, there was no innovation in the use of cascara to have high economic
value, some amount of abundant cascara is used by the farmers as cattle feed and the
rest is sold. The aim of this research was to analyze the level of innovation in cascara
utilization by the coffee farmers. The variables of this research were the type of
innovation used by the cascara community and the analysis of the economic value
that has been obtained. The methods used were survey, interview, and questionnaire.
The respondents of this study consisted of 26 coffee farmers in Jember regency. The
results showed that the farmers who used cascara as fertilizer were 3.9%, cattle feed
by 7.7%, used cascara tea of 3.9%, sold cascara by 65.3% and disposed it as much
19.2%. Based on the economic value, the use of cascara which has the lowest value is
disposed it while the higher one is sold it, use it as cattle feed, fertilizer and cascara
tea. Education for farmers is needed to make cascara benefits well in producing
innovative and environmentally friendly products.
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