Increasing the Income of Pineapple Farmers by Processing Cattle Waste into Organic Fertilizer in Lendang Nangka Utara Village, East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara

The main problem faced by pineapple farmers in the Lendang Nangka Utara village area is fertilizer. The effort to overcome the impact of the fertilizer scarcity phenomenon is to manage sources of alternative fertilizer raw materials such as animal manure into organic fertilizers. Therefore, a community service program was implemented which aims to increase the knowledge and skills of farmers in making organic fertilizer from raw materials that are available in abundance. The activity was carried out using the participatory action method for 9 months, through several stages, namely problem identification, targeting farmer groups, program implementation, monitoring and evaluation. All activities took place in an orderly, safe and smooth manner. The knowledge and skills of farmers have increased, as evidenced by their high enthusiasm in producing organic fertilizers to be applied to several types of plants. Application of alley cropping (allay cropping) in coconut stands with spinach, shallots, long beans and pineapples as alley crops fed organic fertilizer at a dose of 25 tons ha^-1, was able to increase coconut yields which were originally only 5,372-7,880 grains ha^-1 year^-1, to 19,470-19,736 ha^-1 year^-1. As for the pineapple plant, initially only 8,372 ha^-1 fruit could be harvested after the application of 25 tons ha^-1 organic fertilizer, which reached 17,255 ha^-1 fruit. The recommended dose of organic fertilizer produced by this production is 25 tons ha^-1 for pineapples and other annual crops, with application time after tillage.