The magic of local plants for the community prosperity and the economics of Argosuko village

Village areas that classified as the poor or undeveloped places usually characterized by the majority of the population as farmers. The large population of farmers makes them have many of the plant commodities that can be used as medicinal plants or others such as drying to be simplicia. Simplicia is a dry form of the plant parts such as from seed, branch, leaf, root, flower or the fruit. Therefore, this research purposed to know the diversity of local plants that have a potency to be an additional income for local people of ArgosukoVillage, Poncokusumo District, Malang and also to improve and educate the local people on how to process the plant to be a simplicia. The result showed that there are 30 species of plants that have the high potency to be converted into simplicia. Besides the plant species survey, We also give knowledge about simplicia on how to process, how to package the products, and also how to make a license their products from simplicia. The high opportunity of Argosuko Village to improve their prosperity and economy are widely open, supported by the availability of materials (local plants) and the willingness of Argosuko people to trade its products. For further study we arrange to analyze the local plants ingredients in Argosuko Village to strengthen product licensing.