Pemanfaatan Lahan Kosong Untuk Pengembangan Kegiatan PKK

Abstract

The RT 04 RW 04 Kalisegoro area, which was once dry land, has now been partially converted into a housing complex. Despite the housing development, a small portion of the land remains vacant and underutilized. This community service activity aims to improve the land, arrange it to look neat, motivate residents and utilize empty land to cultivate horticultural plants by women Dawis and PKK members of RT 04. The activities will be carried out from September to December 2024. The community service method used was empowering women from the Dawis and Family Welfare Movement (PKK) through mentoring them in utilizing vacant land, creating cultivation facilities and infrastructure, and cultivating horticultural crops. The activity stages include: initial coordination and survey, layout planning, repair and construction of infrastructure, field development, and monitoring. The community service activities involved mothers who were members of the PKK and Dawis in RT 04/04 Kalisegoro, and were assisted by students from the Agribusiness Study Program, Faculty of Agriculture, Wahid Hasyim University. The results of this activity included landscaping for horticultural crops, a cleaner environment, and the ability to produce vegetables. Furthermore, the motivation of women from the PKK and Dawis to cultivate and care for plants increased. The horticultural crops planted were chili peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants. At the end of the activity, the horticultural crops were not producing optimally due to pests and diseases, such as green grasshoppers, fruit flies, gemini virus, and wilt.