“OMAH TELO”: PENGEMBANGAN PRODUK BERBASIS UBI JALAR DI PROGRAM STUDI ILMU DAN TEKNOLOGI PANGAN

Abstract

Tracer study which has been done by Department of Food Science and
Technology showed that only 62,5% of graduates have related job to the major, while
from 62,5% that have, only 10% become businessman/entrepreneur. This matter
necessarily become a shared duty of the study program to escalate student
entrepreneurial spirit since early on. Step that had been taken by the study program in
order to evoke student entrepreneurial spirit has not given maximum result because
students could not apply their sciene of entrepreneurship in a business unit practice
directly. Therefore, Department of Food Science and Technology is commited to evoke
and escalate student entrepreneurial spirit by forming a production unit named “Omah
Telo”. This program is directed to obtain reveneu generating for the research group in
particular, Department of Food Science and Technology in general and also build
technopreneurship sprit in HIMAGHITA. In its first year, this program has been
successfully build up a productive business unit “Omah Telo” with chips and sweet
potato flour as the main products, also tela-tela, sweet potato stick, ice cream and
schotel as the additional products. The entrepreneurship talkshow, food industry
management, and also marketing techniques have established the technopreneurship
spirit of the students. PIRT permission and online marketing could increase the product
marketing of IbPTK production.
Keyword: omah telo, technopreneurship, sweet potato