A.A. Jaziri, Guntur, W. Setiawan, A.A. Prihanto, A. Kurniawan
Salt is an assential material of industry, not only in food industry point of view but also in various industries such as chemical, oil drilling, and animal feed industries, even less than half of salt needs used to household consumption. It is crucial to ensure salt production in Indonesia reaches the national target (3.7 million tons) due to relatively low technology and production level. Thus salt production technology is developed to facilitate farmers consisted of geomembrane and filtering-threaded technology. However, the use of those technologies in producing salt was proved less effective due to unpredictable weather conditions. Therefore, greenhouse technology is proposed to be used for salt production for several good reasons. This paper describes the preliminary design of a low-cost greenhouse designed as a pyramid model that uses bamboo, mono-layer and high density polyethylene plastics. The results confirmed that the yield of salt produced by greenhouse significantly incresed compared with prior technology and the NaCl content increased as well. The cost of greenhouse was IDR 5,688,000 and easy to assembly. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Department of Fishery Product Tecnology, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Universitas Brawijaya, Veteran Street, East Java, Malang, 65145, Indonesia; Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, 65145, Indonesia; Coastal and Marine Research Center, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, 65145, Indonesia; Kencana Tiara Gemilang, PT, Malang, 65153, Indonesia
