Training Students to Become Agrosociopreneurs, Faculty of Agroindustry UMBY Holds 2022 Agroindustry Festival

The Faculty of Agroindustry, Mercu Buana University Yogyakarta (UMBY) held the 2022 Agroindustry Festival. The 2022 agroindustry festival is a student expo from the results of the development of both commodities and processed food products as well as agricultural facilities from the faculty characterizing courses, namely the Integrated Agricultural Field Lecture (KLPT) and program courses. studies such as Field Lectures, Agribusiness, and Organic Agriculture.

This activity was held on 28, 29 and 30 June 2022, and was attended by 42 student groups and supported by the BEM of the Faculty of Agroindustry, the Study Program Student Association (HMPS) from 4 study programs namely Himagro (Agrotechnology Study Program), Himaster (Animal Husbandry Study Program). ), Himatepa (Agricultural Product Technology Study Program), and Himap (S2 Master of Food Science Study Program) and alumni. This event was held at UMBY Campus 1, Jalan Wates Sedayu in the Lobby and Courtyard of the UMBY Agroindustry Faculty at 08.00 – 13.00.

The event was opened directly by Dr. Chatarina Lilis Suryani, S.TP., M.P. as the Dean of the UMBY Faculty of Agroindustry, who in his speech said that the Faculty of Agroindustry, Mercu Buana University Yogyakarta (UMBY) is the only faculty that organizes 3 study programs of agricultural clumps in one container, namely agricultural cultivation (agrotechnology), animal husbandry, and agricultural product processing technology. . This is a manifestation of the mission to participate in developing agriculture as an integrated agro-industry system. On Tuesday, (28/06/2022)

"Hopefully, every graduate of the Faculty of Agroindustry has a perspective and a way of solving agricultural problems based on the Integrated agricultural system. To achieve this, each study program must have superior (main) competencies that show its main role as a subsystem of the Integrated agricultural system.” he said.