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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

reduced demand from collecting traders. Therefore, it is necessary to
diversify processed food products from cassava.
In 2012, the Sungai Suci Farmers Group received the assistance of a
unit of mocaf-making equipment from the Bengkulu Provincial
Agriculture Office to diversify processed food products from cassava.
Initially, the technology applied was unable to produce mocaf flour with
good quality because there was still a cassava aroma from the mocaf
flour produced. Improvements in the quality of mocaf flour were then
carried out in 2014 through technical guidance from BPTP Bengkulu.
The resulting mocaf flour is then used as raw material for local culinary
products such as rengginang, pastries, mpek mpek, and sponge
cakes. However, mocaf flour and its derivative culinary products have
not developed due to marketing difficulties.
At the time of the study, only three processed products from cassava
were still produced by the Sungai Suci Farmers Group for commercial
purposes, namely cassava chips, mocaf flour, and rengginang mocaf.
Chips are produced routinely and sold to traders, while mocaf flour
and mocaf rengginang are only produced on a limited basis according
to consumer orders. The number of cassava chips produced by the
Sungai Suci Farmers Group is 3-5 tons per month, while the
production of mocaf flour is only around 50 kg and rengginang mocaf
20 kg per month. Cassava peel waste is used by farmers as cattle
feed and solid fertilizer. During the rainy season, farmers sell fresh
cassava by wholesale to tape traders when the weather is not
favorable for processing cassava chips. The wholesale price of 1
cassava garden stake (about 278 m2) ready for harvest is between
Rp. 400,000 – 700,000, depending on the condition of the plant. The
flow chart for the utilization of cassava yields in the Sungai Suci
Farmers Group is shown in Figure 1.

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