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The 2 International Seminar of Science and Technology
“Accelerating Sustainable innovation towards Society 5.0”
ISST 2022 FST UT 2022
Universitas Terbuka

DIVERSIFICATION OF PROCESSED FOODS AS AN
EFFORT TO INCREASE THE INCOME OF CASSAVA
FARMERS IN BENGKULU TENGAH REGENCY

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Lusy Sefya Andriesti , Timbul Rasoki

Agribusiness Study Program Faculty of Science and Technology
Universitas Terbuka (INDONESIA)

*Corresponding author: shefyaan@gmail.com
Abstract
Cassava is a commodity with high productivity and is profitable to
cultivate. Demand for consumption and industrial processing is
relatively high, especially as raw materials for processed food. To
increase the sales volume of a product, one of the efforts that can be
made is to diversify processed products. With a qualitative descriptive
method, this study was conducted on farmer groups in the Sungai
Suci, Pondok Kelapa sub-district, Bengkulu Tengah Regency. In
addition to increasing creativity, diversifying locally processed
products increase people's income and help farmers minimize losses
due to falling prices during the main harvest. It is hoped that after the
diversification of locally processed food products, the community will
be able to take advantage of business opportunities from locally
processed products based on cassava commodities.
Keywords: diversification, cassava, processed food

1 INTRODUCTION
Cassava is an important food source, meaning for the community's
economy. Cassava is a source of local carbohydrates besides rice and
corn but cannot be stored long after harvesting. One of the efforts to
reduce the losses of cassava farmers during the main harvest is to
diversify their yields in the form of durable food. That way, in addition
to reducing losses, it can also increase farmers' income. According to
Tjiptono [7], diversification is a strategy to develop new products for

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