Kerikil as a Diversified Product from Melinjo Skin For Economic Improvement of the Community on Kadu Agung Village [Kerikil sebagai Produk Diversifikasi Olahan Kulit Melinjo untuk Peningkatan Ekonomi Masyarakat Desa Kadu Agung]

Abstract

Kadu Agung Village is a mountainous region, the natural wealth of which is agricultural and plantation commodities. The particular one of them is melinjo fruits reaching 60 tons of yield per year. People commonly consume melinjo's leaves as well as the seeds for their daily diets. They cook the leaves for vegetable soup and process the seeds, named tangkil, to be melinjo chips but they waste the fruit skins, kulit tangkil, It is out of question that during harvest season, tons of melinjo skins are dumped  in Kadu Agung. Based on this fact, the community service program will carry out a training food diversification to process melinjo skins, kulit tangkil,  into a new product that is crackers, named Kerupuk Kulit Tangkil (Kerikil).  The method of this activity used is pre-implementation, implementation, and post-implementation. The results of this study are melinjo skin cracker products with good packaging to lift up their selling value. and the improvement of the economy in Kadu Agung of Gunung Sari, Serang.