The Ministry of Agriculture has created a modern agricultural sector by introducing the Lumbungin application, which is a series of Fornas P4S activities, Saturday, September 24, 2022. Minister of Agriculture Syahrul Yasin Limpo said digitalization has entered various sectors, including agriculture. "This digital world is close to millennials. Therefore, we invite millennials to enter the agricultural sector. Because this sector is promising and there is much to work on," he said. The head of the Agricultural Human Resources Extension and Development Agency (BPPSDMP), Dedi Nursyamsi, explained that Lumbungin is an application-based digital platform. "This application has various educational features, community networks, and agricultural business opportunities. Lumbungin is a smart application for classy farmers. In this application there are several association features. One of them is the National Agricultural Network (JPN)," he said. Dedi Nursyamsi explained, there are a number of benefits from Lumbungin. "Among them are communication media between farmers, transition media and farmer information to the digital world, educational media about agriculture," he said.
The benefits of the Lumbungin application are as a medium of communication between farmers, transition media and farmer information to the digital world, educational media about agriculture, through buying and selling or Lumbunginstore as a bridge for agricultural transactions, media for gathering between communities and agricultural ecosystems. The activity begins with the delivery of the initial goal of establishing the Lumbungin application, namely sharing information between farmers in terms of farming knowledge, and other information. Then as a means of learning and providing information about agriculture, means of promotion, consultation with experts, and means of promotion with coverage by the Lumbungin Team. Next, show how to download the Lumbungin application. The Lumbungin application is expected to become an application that has more complete services such as Gojek. The P4S managers also hope that Lumbungin can help P4S problems so far, namely marketing and some participants asked about problems when downloading Lumbungin applications and payment barriers.
