EVALUASI PROSES PRODUKSI PUPUK ORGANIK GRANUL (POG) YANG DIPERKAYA DENGAN MIKROBA FUNGSIONAL

Abstract

Organic Fertilizer in the form of Granule Organic Fertilizer (POG), which is enriched
with functional microbes, has been produced in great quantities nowdays, because it is
expected to improve the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil at once. The
condition of land degradation that has become a big concern, in spite of the low organic
matter in the lands, more encourage the increasing of POG production to be applied very
soon into agricultural lands in Indonesia. However, how is the conditions of the POG
plant, what kind of raw material that will be used and how does the production process
itself run, would be very excited to be analysis in order to develop the future of POG
plant. Results showed that the POG plant conditions generally contains of the facilities
and infrastructure that support the physical/ mechanical process, that is not passed the
biological process first which is known as composting process. The raw materials that
has been used could not maximize organic materials potentials that exist and only rely
on animal waste and sugarcane waste (blotong) from sugar mills, as the main mostly
used raw material. While the common POG manufacturing process consist of the mixing
of the raw materials, granulation process, drying, cooling, screening, enrichment with
functional microbes and packaging.