IPB Student Conch Trap Successfully Becomes the Best Innovation

Bogor Agricultural University student (IPB) won the Best Innovation in Innovation & Technology Forum (FIT) and National Conference of Innovation and Technopreneurship (KNIT) at the end of last year. The annual conference and exhibition is organized by Yayasan Inotek and fully supported by The Lemelson Foundation based in Portland, Oregon, USA. 

One of the competitions held at the IPB International Convention Center building, Bogor, West Java, is a Student Scientific Work Competition with the main theme 'Scalable Impact' 

IPB press release received by Republika.co.id on Tuesday (18 / 7) mentioned that the IPN student team consisted of two students from the Faculty of Agricultural Technology (Fateta) namely M Ari Purnama Adji and Amir Machmud, both of which initiated the idea of snail pest traps for rice fields in Indonesia. 

Ari Purnama Aji said that the rice field snail population is abundant will certainly make the production process of paddy rice is not optimal.This pest can eat young rice plants so that the plant does not produce rice grain as normal if not controlled 

Not to mention reproduction snail Spelled out massive because one parent snail can produce eggs as much as three hundred snail fields. 'Farmers overcome masala H is still by taking it manually by hand. However, certainly less effective, 'said Ari.