Community empowering to escalate its economy by processing taro tubers into taro chips: Case in Kecamatan Patampanua

Abstract

The Regional Partnership Program (PKW) of the Universitas Hasanudin in collaboration with the POLITANI Pangkep and the Pinrang Regency Government have carried out community service activities to overcome the existing issues in the Kecamatan Patampanua, especially in the Desa Malimpung. Recognizing the community's knowledge and skills to manage nearby natural resources is essential to increase the economy and in turn, the welfare of the society. It is key to reducing poverty. The activity aims at improving the knowledge and skills of the community in the Desa Malimpung about how to process taro tubers into taro chips was conducted in the Desa Malimpung on July 23-25, 2018 with the Malimpung's society as the audient target. The methods are counseling, demonstration, and implementation. The result is there is an increase of the community's knowledge about the nutritional content of taro tubers and taro chips, materials, and procedures for making taro chips as well as their storage and packaging process.