The Strategy of Organic Farming Implementation through Waste Bio-Conversion in Developing Baran Edu-Tourism Kampung, Malang, Indonesia

Abstract

To increase the economic resilience due to the Covid-19 pandemic and raise the environmental quality, it is important to conduct a community-based development program based on an integrated strategy. This study aimed to formulate Kampung Baran Edu-tourism strategies, Kampung Baran was one of Madura Pendalungan’s urban-periphery settlements in Malang City. First, the (local) characteristics based on terraphilia paradigms were identified. The characteristics contain local potentials and their problems. At the second stage, we used SWOT analysis to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and formulate strategies to develop Baran edu-tourism. The organic Integrated Farming concept was chosen as the development model. It started from organic-fertilizer production through organic waste bio-conversion (we chose vermicompost and liquid organic fertilizer). The implementation of organic-waste bio-conversion should be conducted through mentoring, counseling, innovators coaching, and FGDs to enrich local people's knowledge about modern organic farming, and strengthen social participation, socio-economic institutions, and networks.