Pemanfaatan Teknologi Pascapanen untuk Pengembangan Agroindustri Perdesaan di Indonesia

Postharvest handling application is one of the ways to increase agricultural commodity’s added value. In addition, it also can reduce agricultural yield loss. Technology application is started with dissemination and socialization activity and then followed by technology adoption. The process of dissemination and adoption of the introduced technologies is a crucial part of the efforts to apply technology at the end user’s level. Various factors influence the process of dissemination and adoption both associated with the process technology dissemination and the technology beneficiaries. This paper describes an analysis of technology transfer process of postharvest technolgy mainly for food crops and estate crops and community development in various regions of Indonesia. A concept of zero waste development policy is enhanced in the process of disseminating postharvest technology toward development of rural agro-industry. With that action, it is expected that farmers' income and agricultural commodity competitiveness could be promoted. Forum Penelitian Agro Ekonomi, Vol. 34, No. 1. Hal. 23-35