PELATIHAN PENERAPAN TEKNOLOGI IRIGASI TETES SEDERHANA UNTUK MEMPRODUKSI BUAH SALAK GULA PASIR DI LUAR MUSIM

Abstract

Natural flowering of “Salak Gula Pasir” occures once every three months or 4 times a year, however, only one
to two of flower season succeeds to become fruit. Failure fruit-set causes the fruit harvest seasonally; partly due to
the internal water content of leaf is low. The situation is not favorable in terms of agribusiness because production
quantities accumulate only during the harvest time (on-season). Off-season flowering technology of “Salak Gula
Pasir” by simple dripping irrigation has been founded, gardeners, however have not yet recognised. The aim of
this community service is to introduce that technology by means of training to the gardeners. The participants
attended the training seriously because the subject was really expected by them. After training, participants were
convinced that they can do how to make off-season production of “Salak Gula Pasir”, moreover they expect the
local government would provide rainwater harvesting and the required dripping irrigation installations.
Keywords: salak Gula Pasir, drip, irrigation, off-season, training.