Guidance and Empowerment of the ‘Sejahtera II Karunia’ Farmer Group in Supporting the Development of Tobacco as a Leading Commodity in Langsa City

Pembinaan dan Pemberdayaan Kelompok Tani ‘Sejahtera II Karunia’ Dalam Mendukung Pengembangan Komoditi Unggulan Tembakau di Kota Langsa

Abstrak

The Langsa City Government continues to strive to increase farmers’ income through the agricultural and plantation sectors. In addition to rice, the Langsa City Food, Agriculture, Marine, and Fisheries Office is now developing tobacco. The Agricultural Extension Center of East Langsa District has appointed the ‘Sejahtera II Karunia’ Farmer Group as a Tobacco Farmer Start-Up. However, this farmer group still faces various challenges in the field. The Community Partnership Empowerment Program with a Community-Based Empowerment scheme is designed to address issues such as inadequate production facilities, low farmer capacity, crop management, and limited market access. This program will be implemented through education, training, and mentoring. Higher education institutions play an important role in this program to foster and empower the ‘Sejahtera II Karunia’ Farmer Group in supporting the development of tobacco as a leading commodity in Langsa City. The objectives of this activity are to increase the quantity of production facilities and infrastructure, enhance the capacity of farmers and farmer groups, improve market access, and increase knowledge of tobacco cultivation techniques through training and mentoring. The expected outputs of this activity include student recognition as part of MBKM for a minimum of 6 credits, posters, activity videos, scientific articles in SINTA-indexed journals, mass media publications, successful inter-regional/county marketing by partners, and improved product quality by partners