Tegar Nur Hidayat

Students of Agricultural and Biosystem Engineering Study Program

Tegar and the team obtained the Silver Medal at the ASEAN-Indian Grassroot Innovation Forum organised by the Department of Science and Technology, Republic of the Philippines in 2019. Tegar and the team proposed innovations in the form of tools to help oil palm fruit bunch collectors to increase their income and reduce worker fatigue. The tool is called Erbron-C or ergonomic fruit bunch collector.

Tegar also won 1st place in the 2019 Agricultural Engineering for Sustainable Agriculture Production (AESAP) and in the Tanoto Student Research Award at IPB University. He was also a gold medalist in the poster category and in the presentation category at PIMNAS 32.

His great interest in agricultural technology makes him contribute to a student organisation, namely the Agricultural Engineering Student Association (Himateta). He is also entrusted as Chairman of the Department of Research and Academics for the 2019-2020 period.