Community Response of Small Scale Bio fertilizer Production

Abstract

Biofertilizer act same like chemical fertilizer for plant. be a plant nutrition source, like carbon, nitrogen, potassium and other micro mineral. More environmentally save than the chemical fertilizer. Some problems emerge during the production, particularly in fermentation and decomposing process with the microbial decomposer. The problems start on smell pollution, time consuming, and lower price. And like other developed country, the farmer or group of farmer produce the bio fertilizer by their own in the small scale. Mostly, the farmers applied without understanding the environmental and nearby community response. This social service activity aimed to understand the community acceptance and upgrading the production activity to be reducing any kind of pollutions. The upgrade protocol conduct by upgrade the standard operational procedure, rate and the equipment. Based on the survey result, major community member nearby agree on the small scale production of bio fertilizer, where produce on their farmer group. The interesting result found in the women respondents who have nearest house in production location. More than 75% of have problem with the odor pollutions especially in the mixing time and fermentation. The significant opposite result found in the male respondent. They inform it doesn’t really matter about the smell. They think it smell not for all the day, just common in the mixing and fermentation. The reducing negative response are decrease with distance of the production site and the respondence site or housing