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Desa Batu Mila di Kecamatan Maiwa merupakan salah satu daerah penghasil jagung di Sulawesi Selatan. Untuk meningkatkan pendapatan, petani membudidayakan ternak kambing yang dikelola secara tradisional. Hal tersebut mengakibatkan banyaknya limbah dari kotoran ternak yang terbengkalai di sekitar kandang. Kegiatan pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk memberdayakan masyarakat agar dapat mengoptimalkan limbah berupa kotoran ternak menjadi pupuk organik yang bernilai ekonomi. Mitra kegiatan ini adalah Kelompok Tani Sikamaseang dan Kelompok Wanita Tani Dasawisma. Pengabdian dilaksanakan dengan metode penyuluhan dan pelatihan. Hasil pelatihan diharapkan dapat membangun kesadaran para petani untuk memanfaatkan kotoran ternak menjadi sumber pupuk organik yang dapat dimanfaatkan untuk menggantikan pupuk anorganik. Wawasan petani tentang pentingnya menjaga lingkungan diharapkan akan bertambah seiring meningkatnya pengetahuan mereka dalam memanfaatkan sumber daya alam menjadi pupuk organik.

The agricultural sector is one of the important sectors for the Indonesian economy. Coffee is one of the commodities produced from the plantation sub-sector included in the agricultural sector which also contributes greatly to the Indonesia economy, especially as a source of foreign exchange, employment and income sources as well as other economic actors. This study aims to determine whether the factors of land area production, number of productive trees, farming costs and labour used by coffee farmers are elastic or inelastic to coffee production. Samples were taken as many as 400 coffee farmers spread in four districts namely North Toraja Regency, Enrekang Regency, Sinjai Regency and Bantaeng Regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Data collected in the form of primary data and secondary data. The analysis used the Cobb-Douglass production function. The results show that the use of production factors; land area, number of productive trees, farming costs and labor are inelastic to coffee production, the scale of farming follows the rules of increasing return to scale. Therefore, it is expected that the support of local government (related institutions) to assist coffee farmers in providing superior seeds to increase coffee production, farmers incomes and reduce land conversion.