Indonesians waste around 115-184 kilograms of food per capita per year on average, according to the study by the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) in collaboration with think-tank World Resources Institute and a management consulting firm Waste for Change. Most of the food waste occurs in the consumption stage when leftover food on the dining table is thrown away.
On the other hand, in the wake of rising cornmeal prices and plummeting poultry egg prices during the Covid-19 pandemic, farmers in small-town Indonesia have been looking for alternative poultry feed options to save cost. To answer their demand, we were thinking about “Will there be an environmentally friendly food supplement that is first and foremost affordable, can be used to save feed costs, and can even improve Chicken health and Egg Quality?”
Now there is, Introducing Pakanar, our alternative -food waste-based- poultry feed. This Poultry feed supplement is made from recycled vegetables and meat-based on food waste, that is often thrown away in traditional markets of rural Indonesia. The food waste is then grounded or blended into starch and then processed into a type of dry meal for the chicken. This can be mixed with traditional chicken feed such as cornmeal and bran.
Our supplement helps the chicken by providing them with rich fibers and minerals, along with proteins that can help them produce higher quality eggs quicker. This means our poultry feed can help in a way, and would eventually create better food that we all can enjoy along with innovatively utilizing food waste.
We intend our alternative poultry waste food to be used on small-scale farms with a chicken population ranging from around 1,000-2,000 in Rural Indonesia.
The purpose of the Alternative poultry waste food is to help lower production costs of small farmers to be more efficient and independent. So they don’t need to spend much on food and have a benchmark for nutritional content and other things, especially the price after becoming ready-to-eat feed.
The economic factor related to the cost of this feed becomes very important considering the decline in the exchange rate of the rupiah against the US dollar which has resulted in the price of conventional feed from manufacturers being increasingly expensive. And the purchase of factory feed in small quantities certainly causes the price to be higher and becomes inefficient than buying conventional feed in large quantities on big scale farmers, so that farmers with large populations can still be efficient and survive with rising factory feed prices (Kompas, 2020)
We hope that with the creation of "Pakanar", this innovative yet environmentally friendly poultry food can help reduce food waste around us, especially in the traditional market sector and the meat industry. We also hope that the existence of " Pakanar" can help farmers to build environmentally friendly food supplements that are affordable, can be used to save feed costs, and can even improve chicken health and egg quality.
Thank you very much for reading about our business idea and solution to the food waste problem
Bina Nusantara University Team 2, Indonesia
Richard Devlin Tanujaya Halim
Audrina Charlotte Denali
Liefindo Joshua
Tania
Dionna Gabrielle Gracella
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Foods Thrown Away in Indonesia Are Enough to Solve Its Malnourishment Problem. (2021). Jakarta Globe. https://jakartaglobe.id/business/foods-thrown-away-in-indonesia-are-enough-to-solve-its-malnourishment-problem
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