Visiting an agribusiness start-up in Selomartani-Sleman, named Indigen Karya Unggul, can make visitors gasp in amazement. Amazed by the thoughts implemented into real work in technological agriculture by fully involving young people. Indigen Farm focuses on cultivating melons planted in greenhouses with a hydroponic system pioneered in 2019.
Igor
Gadira was appointed as the President Director of PT Indigen Farm, a young
graduate of INSTIPER, leading the Japanese Earl Musk melon planting project,
with a sweet crunchy, and juicy taste. Special treatment is certainly applied
in such farming covering greenhouse sterilization, manual pollination, water
management, and also limiting the number of fruit produced. What is applied in
this land is one melon plant for only one melon fruit to fasten the harvest
time, which is around 45 days after pollination. In this 400 square meter
greenhouse area, there are 1.200 melon plants, with a minimum weight of 1.5
kg/fruit priced at Rp. 45,000,-/kilogram.
Indigen Farm, in addition to be an alternative family tourism by picking fruit directly from the greenhosue, which gives a unique sensation by getting fresh and vitamin-rich fruit, is also a means to indirectly educate community and children in general, to love the world of agriculture. Several groups of visitors looked happy when they entered the greenhouse and chose melons according to their desire. Visitors were served by students who had internship or tour guides who were responsible for the fields.
About 300 meters away from Indigen Farm, there is a 1.8-hectare technology-based sheep farm that produces sheep, meat, and milk called Sembada Sinergi Indonesia (SSI) Farm. This modern sheep farm has a pen that can accommodate 500 sheep, which is very clean so that there is no smell of livestock dunk. Using technology based-farm, everything is controlled and standardized. Drinking milk at SSI is the most delicious drinking milk experience, savory and non-‘prengus’ (sheep smell). The involvement of young people in the development of livestock start-ups pioneered in 2022 is very real in each division and its development.
Discussions
on food security and business are interesting and important to be transferred
to other young people, as it’s done by several students at Stube HEMAT
Yogyakarta (09/30/2024). In addition to the agricultural discussion and livestock
start-ups, no less interesting is observing ‘porang’ plant made into rice having
special substance such as, low carbohydrates
and high fiber. Porang plants that grow well in tropical areas are a mainstay
plant to replace rice, it may become an alternative pillar of Indonesia's food
security. Let's young people continue to be creative to process the potential
around us. ***
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