<![CDATA[Mandalamekar Village, Cimenyan District, Bandung Regency, faces unmanaged livestock manure, odour, environmental risks, and continued dependence on externally purchased chemical fertilisers. This community service program aimed to convert livestock waste into marketable compost while strengthening local production capacity and establishing a village-based circular enterprise. A Participatory Action Research approach was implemented through participatory assessment, technical training, assisted production, standard operating procedure development, an agronomic demonstration plot, packaging and branding, cost calculation, and market-access development. Thirty members of the livestock and farmer groups participated in the intervention. Evaluation combined pre-test and post-test measurement, production monitoring, physical compost-maturity indicators, qualitative observation, and a simple cost and sensitivity analysis. The program produced 100 kg of mature compost in the first production cycle, established a production SOP, prepared five initial sale-ready sacks, and generated a gross margin of 50.18% at a selling price of IDR 25,000 per kg and production cost of IDR 12,455 per kg. The results indicate that integrating technical capacity building with downstream business development can strengthen local waste valorisation, create supplementary income opportunities, and operationalise circular economy principles at village level.]]>
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