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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

new markets. Product diversification is an effort made by companies
to diversify products or services by creating products or services by
creating new products or services to suit the tastes and needs of
consumers to increase sales. Product diversification is an effort to find
and develop new products or markets, or both, to pursue growth and
increase sales, profitability, and flexibility [8].
Cassava can be processed into various local food products such as
chips, rengginang, tape, cassava, cassava flour, modified cassava
flour (Modified Cassava Flour or mocaf), tapioca flour, sago kasbi, and
cassava. While non-food products for industry such as maltodextrin,
glucose, fructose, sorbitol, bioethanol, and various organic acids [5],
stated that snack food made from cassava flour in the culinary industry
has the potential to continue to increase rapidly with the development
of the use of mocaf flour as a flour that can be used as flour substitute
for wheat. These processed products are products that can be
developed because they have economic value. In addition, these
products also have a reasonably long shelf life, making it possible to
produce them in large quantities. So far, most processed forms
consumed are boiled, fried, and so on, which are not durable, so they
cannot be produced in large quantities because they are not durable.
Processing processed cassava will impact farmers' income and added
value of cassava products, prolong storage time, and create jobs in
rural areas [6]. In addition, processing yields can increase the
bargaining power of cassava farmers at harvest time from a decrease
in the selling price of fresh cassava [3]. One of the farmer groups in
Bengkulu that diversifies cassava into various processed food
products is the Sungai Suci Farmers Group in Pasar Pedati Village,
Pondok Kelapa District, Central Bengkulu Regency. This farmer group
is the center for processing cassava chips in Central Bengkulu
Regency. Besides chips, farmers also process cassava into mocaf
flour and rengginang mocaf. This study aims to determine the
additional benefits and added value of the business of processing
chips, mocaf flour, and rengginang mocaf as an effort to increase the
income of farmers in these farmer groups.

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International Seminar of Science and Technology “Accelerating Sustainable
Towards Society 5.0