PEMBERDAYAAN KARANG TARUNA “SAYLENDRA KARYA” DESA SIDOREJO KECAMATAN BANDONGAN KABUPATEN MAGELANG MELALUI PELATIHAN PEMBUATAN BIBIT TANAMAN BUAH DENGAN SAMBUNG PUCUK SEBAGAI MODAL AWAL BERWIRAUSAHA

Abstract

Sidorejo Village, Bandongan District, Magelang Regency is located about 4 km to the northwest of Tidar University. The main livelihood of Sidorejo village residents is almost 50% are construction workers and agricultural laborers. The Syailendra Karya youth group have very limited activities, depending on funds from the government, even though the potential to advance and develop is high but its has not been directed and cultivated with certain skills. There must be a breakthrough by creating their own job opportunities through skills, so that in the future they can have their own business units to support and advance the youth organizations. Tidar University, especially the Faculty of Agriculture, has an area of 6 ha located in the village. Currently the land as an Education, Research and Community Service Garden (KP3) is only used as a place for practicum, research, and collection of fruit mother plants, so that the institution has an obligation to carry out its devotion to the community around KP3 to advance the area. The two conditions can be mutually suportive because the development of both cannot be separated from the good relationship between of the two. Based on these opportunities, counseling, and training on the manufacture of fruit plant seeds were held by means of shoot grafting, insert grafting and grafting cuttings, which can later be used as a business unit for selling and providing superior fruit plant seeds. Fruit plants that derived from shoot grafting, two years from grafting can already bear fruit compared to those from seeds that took ten years to be bear fruit. The quality of the fruit is the same as that of the mother plant, so that the superior quality of the fruit will remain guaranteed compared to that from the seeds of the fruit, which may change. This makes the demand for fruit plant seeds that produced from shoot grafting always increases and the price is high.