Corn is an important commodity for the people's economy Indonesia, including Aceh province. The need of corn throughout the year is sufficient large, ie as foodstuffs, and staples for the animal feed industry.The content of maize in fodder reaches more than 50%, with so the need for corn is increasing.
because there is a major problem in post-harvest handling of maize at the farm level is still a high loss of yield from harvest to postharvest. This is due to the limited knowledge and skills of farmers within handling harvests and post harvest and alsin are quite expensive.
Handling appropriate postharvest is required to obtain good quality corn high and suppress yield loss. Less good handling will causing damage to the seeds thus decreasing the quality and price of maize.
so that no post harvest damage can be kept as low as possible required various steps, among others, by counseling for improve farmers knowledge and skills in the application of techniques postharvest of maize appropriately, such as the determination of harvest time, avoidance occurrence of damage during drying, pitting and spacing.
