TEKNIK PENGEMASAN MAKANAN PADA INDUSTRI KECIL PEMBUATAN TAHU DI DAERAH RAWANG SARI KM.18 SUKOMORO KABUATEN BANYUASIN SUMATERA SELATAN

Tofu is a food made from soybeans fermented and extracted. Nowadays the culinary business knows that it is increasingly diverse and has never been lonely interested. Tofu culinary business is carried out by opening a shop, a restaurant, or by using a booth or cart, and even a hawker business is offered in the form of a franchise. These facts show that the culinary business opportunity to know is still very large. In addition, because tofu is also a food that has been well known for a long time, tofu businesses will survive for a long time. However, a large business opportunity will not mean anything if the businessman does not have a precise strategy in carrying out it. For entrepreneurs, production speed and product quality are very important. The manual method cannot be relied upon to get large amounts of tofu quickly and with the same shape and size. The use of machinery will save costs, time and energy to produce tofu. In this community service program which is a partner, namely a micro business engaged in tofu making, with the business name Pakde Tahu Gurih located on Jalan Raya Palembang, Rawang Sari Village RT 27 Sukomoro Banyuasin and located approximately 18 km from the Sriwijaya State Polytechnic ,where the effects that will be solved in this program are in the field of promotion and marketing systems. In the field of marketing, namely by providing assistance in the form of training in food packaging human resources techniques to be durable and can last up to ≥15 days. Tests are carried out on tofu partner products using a vacuum sealer. From the results of testing the maximum durability of the tofu product (≥15 days) is still in good condition if previously we did the packaging using a vacuum sealer and cooled in cold air in the refrigerator