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Durian Garden start-up wins this year's Jagoan Tani competition
The Jagoan Tani program has crowned the winning team for 2022. The winner is eligible to receive Rp 125 million (US$8,435.40) in capital. Jagoan Tani was first initiated to foster an entrepreneurial spirit in the field of agribusiness for the younger generation of Bayuwangi, East Java
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he Jagoan Tani program has crowned the winning team for 2022. The winner is eligible to receive Rp 125 million (US$8,435.40) in capital. Jagoan Tani was first initiated to foster an entrepreneurial spirit in the field of agribusiness for the younger generation of Bayuwangi, East Java. During the competition, various pilot businesses were proposed and discussed, ranging from food agriculture, horticulture, plantations, animal husbandry, fisheries to forestry.
Announced on Thursday (16/6/2022) at the Pendopo Sabha Swagata Blambangan in Banyuwangi, the agriculture startup Durian Garden from Bayu Village, Songgon District won the prestigious award for 2022. It succeeded in beating hundreds of other teams in the agricultural innovation event for young people, and received capital assistance of Rp 50 million.
Team leader Songgon Syva Dila Kharisma said he started his business in 2018 after completing college, when he and his friends first used social media to sell Durians online.
“We sell outside of town. By using social media and online market places, we have succeeded in selling durians to Jakarta and other cities," said Syva.
Syva uses the business to empower durian farmers, shifting the spotlight to them instead of middlemen in wholesale that usually increase their prices. The durians are sold per seed and farmers can make a profit of up to 300 percent, according to Syva.
Durian Garden also involves the surrounding community in developing its business by empowering residents to produce various types of durian products. The village has since become a tourist destination.
Kukuh Roxa Putra, as the spokesperson for the jury, explained that Durian Garden's business sustainability, community involvement and the utilization of information technology facilities gave the team what it needed to win the competition.
"From these three aspects, Durian Garden is superior to the other participants," said the founder of PT. Pandawa Agri Industry.
”Amid a shortage of farmers, young people from Banyuwangi are actually innovating to be able to increase agricultural productivity to modernize the management of agricultural products and their marketing," said Bayuwangi Regent Ipuk Fiestiandani, expressing his pride over participants of the Jagoan Tani program. He added, "In the future, we will continue to provide assistance, so that later we can realize the superior products from the Banyuwangi agricultural world."
He said the presence of millennials and young people in agriculture was something exceptional, hoping they would not stop developing start-up businesses beyond the competition.
This is the fifth year of the Jagoan Tani program and the anticipation was evident as the committee received over 203 proposals.
“A total of 1,015 participants were involved. The composition is 52 percent male and 48 percent female,” said the acting head of the Banyuwangi Regency Agriculture Office, M Khoiri.
From there, 152 teams were selected to join the competition, which then further decreased through interviews, product presentations and a business incubation stage. In the end, only 30 start-ups were selected to qualify for the final round.
