The series of events is our adventure to prove to the world that the
students can contribute actively to minimize the impact of poverty in villages
without prejudice to the responsibility of college. There are three main
activities Gingerangers Project series that began in 2013, namely student tutoring, a discussion of business plans chocolate ginger, and ginger
cultivation with polybag method. The main activities of the project was
inspired by the thought of Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh and Simon Sinek.
Gemawang village in Central Java province (Indonesia) has been planted ginger since hundreds of years ago, but unfortunately it is still done
conventionally. Through Gingerangers Project, we promote innovation of ginger cultivation with polybag method which has the advantage of efficiency and
productivity of five times more than with previous methods. The reason for
choosing to developed ginger as a
commodity is that because
Indonesia is one of the best spice in the world. Approximately 90% of medicinal
plants in Asia are planted in Indonesia.
Moreover, taking into account local community wisdom, ginger cultivation has
considerable economic potential.
To increase the sale value of ginger, we also invite the villagers of Gemawang village to make ginger processed
products, namely “chocoped”. Perhaps,
this is the first chocolate products in the world that uses ginger jam as a
flavor enhancer. Compared to powdered ginger, ginger jam is located on the authenticity of flavor and a more viscous
properties. In an effort to introduce these products, we conduct various
discussions of business plan
that aims to solve the problem of the products that can exist in the market.
We are aware that one of the
most important success factor of Gingerangers Project is how communities respond to this activity. To enhance the
public participation, we also held tutoring for
student’s of Gemawang to motivate and inspire 90 elementary students to have an awareness of the
importance of agriculture at an early age. At this time, the project is being
run under the coordination of IAAS Diponegoro University.
About Unknown
IAAS LC UNDIP is The one of the Local Committee who are members of IAAS INDONESIA which is the biggest international student organization in the world's field of agriculture and related sciences who located at Diponegoro University, Semarang, Central Java. We have the village concept project which was in Gemawang Village with our excellent products namely chocolate ginger (Chocoped's) and We have 120 Total Members
