Review: Penanganan Pengeringan dan Pergudangan Bahan Baku Jagung untuk Pakan Unggas

Abstract

The aim of the article was to study corn production in Indonesia. Indonesia has been known to import corn to complete their need mainly poultry feed. Even though in 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture Republic Indonesia had stated that the total number of local corn production should be enough to fill the need. But the feed industries were still importing corn because the production of local corn had not met the quality standard. This was caused by several reasons, mainly due to poor handling methods of the production, such as improper dry processing and storage method. Good dry processing on corn should lower the water content by up to 14%. This could be done by creating a simple version of the dryer so that local farmers could dry the corns even in the rainy season. A good storage method was also needed to maintain the quality of corn. Corns could be stored in a silo to prevent the damage so that the stored dried corn could last longer. Local farmers could create a farming group and make a silo to store their corn production together.