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Socialisation of Gading/Profarm Programme in West Lombok Regency

pengetahuanhijau.com - Gading/Profarm programme is an activity undertaken by Hivos and Yayasan Rumah Energi consortium through Millenium Challenge Account Indonesia (MCA-Indonesia) funding. This programme is part of Green Knowledge activity. Previously, this programme has been carried on in a number of regencies within MCA-Indonesia operational areas subsequently North Lombok, Central Lombok, and East Lombok Regencies.

Capturing the Economic Opportunity of Bio-Slurry

entrepreneur.bisnis.com - Theresia Rukiatun (45), the resident of Pagerjuang, Sleman, Yogyakarta once was upset because of LPG’s scarcity in 2013. As one of the dairy milk processor which depends on gas furnace, gas is her a vital fuel in her milk production.

BIRU, Toward Energy Self-Sustainability

pengetahuanhijau.com - BIRU (Biogas Rumah), merupakan kegiatan yang dilaksanakan oleh Konsorsium Hivos – Yayasan Rumah Energi (YRE) dalam Program Terang melalui pendanaan MCA-Indonesia pada Hibah Window 1B (Hibah Kemitraan Kemakmuran Hijau). Kegiatan ini tentunya dihajatkan tidak hanya untuk misi penyelamatan lingkungan serta penurunan emisi karbon akibat aktivitas pertanian dan peternakan, tetapi lebih dari itu adalah menuju masyarakat yang mandiri energi serta meningkatnya kesejahteraan masyarakat. BIRU, bukanlah hal pertama kali dilakukan oleh Hivos-YRE. Namun kegiatan ini telah dilaksanakan sejak tahun 2009. Namun melalui pendanaan MCA-Indonesia Hivos-YRE memperluas areal kerja serta memprioritaskan wilayah di seluruh pulau Lombok yang memiliki potensi tetapi belum tersentuh program, salah satunya adalah Kecamatan Sembalun Kabupaten Lombok Timur, Nusa Tenggara Barat.

Alternative Feedstuff, A Measure to Improve Community Income

pengetahuanhijau.com - Since the beginning of the journey to the location of socialisation activities to introduce bioslurry organized by HIVOS-Yayasan Rumah Energi (YRE) Consortium, the vastness of fish ponds have dotted the location. The location of this GADING Progrmme is at Bangle Hamlet, Pesanggerahan Village, Montong Gading Subdistrict, East Lombok. The size of the existing ponds are more than ordinary ponds. Some of them have a very large size. The size of the pond is 5 x 10 meter or more. The primary source of income for the local residents are from agricultural activities. Other than farming activities, the community have laid their hopes on freshwater aquaculture. Rice has been the center of cultivated plant as there is sufficient water supply. The abundant potential of water supply has transformed majority of the farmers to switch from rice farmer to fish farmer. Even the techniques of rice-fish system have been widely practiced. Almost every farmer practices such techniques.

Welcome to the Green Energy Village

pengetahuanhijau.com - Sentul Asli the Green Energy Village apparently is a well-deserved epithet. This is especially true as all of its residents take advantage of biogas as the source of enegy for their cooking needs. In order to reach this hamlet, we will have to travel through rocky and slighlty steep roads. However, the green vistas extended on the left and right sides have turned our more than 100 km away journey from the City of Mataram into a pleasant one. It is clearly visible that the fields surrounding the hamlet situated at Pendua Village, Kayanagan Subdistrict, North Lombok is quite fertile, clean water rushes in the gutters on the roadside, while we will discover twice or three times collective cowshed belonging to the local farmers’ group. Out of these collective cowsheds, the residents will collect manures to fill their reactors other than collecting the manures from their private cowsheds.

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