Judul: Development of Cassava-Based Value-Added Product According to Vanuatu Circumstances
Abstrak: Cassava (Manihotesculantacrantz) in most developing countries such as in South America, Africa and South East Asia is becoming popular in its potential of value added products.Due to its rapidly deterioration within 40-48 hours after harvest, manufactures prefer to convert cassava tubers into more stable forms such as chips and flours so as to prolong the shelf life of the product.Cassava chips and flours are produced as value added products, found great use in food formulation activities in proceed food industries. More recently, the food crop is an important crop for various value added products in bakery, pastry and confectionary industries. In Indonesia, the crop remains first and foremost a food crop used in great variety of dishes. In the outer district of TrenggalekRegency in East Java Province, the root crop has been an alternative income besides other commodities. The region has been involved in various developments on cassava value added product. One of these developments is the production of modified cassava flour(mocaf). Mocaf has recently been introduced as one way of improving the characteristics of cassava flour through fermentation principles of lactic acid.This new product is no inferior to wheat flour and has high potential to substitute wheat flour in most of its applications. On the other hand, in Vanuatu where cassava is one of the stable food, have lack the knowledge to benefit from this common root crop. Since the driving force to be able to benefit from cassava has never been ceased, this research was well designed to fill this gap of development in Vanuatu as a means to provide alternative income besides copra, cocoa, kava and cattle. The research is intended to study the whole process of developing cassava value added products from farm to table.Lesson learned from the research will be appllied according to Vanautu circumstances. Thus, there is no better lesson learned and knowledge gained than to start with the six principles of supply chain management as an approach to identify the three selected management style in the outer districts of Trenggalek region. These management style includes famer, cluster and cooperation. The method used were direct participatory (observation, practise, interview and discussion) along with Supply Chain Management(SCM) approach as means to study their efficiency and profitability along the supply chain. The research performed SWOT analysis on the overall operation of the management style based on SCM approach. Hence, it is concluded that best potential management style development towards cassava value added product according to Vanuatu circumstance would be the farmer and cooperation management style. The two management style execute good mutual relationship and creative logistics as far as SCM concept is concerned. With that value, it is believedit would reduce difficulties and constraints in Vanuatu circumstances where finance and lack of government policies are still very uncertain. As such, appropriate strategies were developed from the lesson learned and integrated into Vanuatu circumstances.The strategies in reducing market risks by working towards interdependency among supply chain members, Cooperating to learn how to create value together and then collaborating to consistently utilise the new value as a source of competitive
Keyword: Modified Cassava Flour, Value Added Product, Vanuatu Circumstances

Judul: Quality assurance strategy development (case study in small scale tapioca agroindustry )
Abstrak: The main food crops in Indonesia consist of paddy, cassava, maize, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and soybeans. Among these six main food crops, cassava is one of important crops in which cassava is the most potential and important in many kinds of tuber crop to produce starch as a raw material for agroindustries producing many commodities to customers. Before processing tapioca, the crude tapioca so called “Aci” is produced from cassava by the small scale tapioca agroindustry (SSTA). In this particular two processing steps, the quality of Aci is a key issue to ensure its quality to produce tapioca in reliance of quality addressed to customers and end-users to satisfy their requirement including local food industries. The objectives of this research were 1) to identify the factors including problems and issues in SSTA from view point of quality assurance, and 2) to develop the necessary strategy for improving quality assurance in SSTA. The research was implemented by three components, namely field survey, data analysis, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). Data analysis was done by Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat (SWOT) method. The determination for strategy development was carried out by QFD to identify the requirement by SSTA and processing importance. The result indicated that the requirements of cassava ’s attribute identified in SSTA were freshness, discoloration, contaminant, variety, and size. The identifications of processing importance were cassava procurement, smashing, waste handling, sieving, sun drying, grinding, and marketing. Among these processing steps, the most important processing were cassava procurement and marketing of Aci. The current condition of Aci producer was analyzed its position being in the quadrant-I with the value of 2.54 and 2.81 in SWOT matrix showing that Aci producer allows to take an aggressive strategy development approach to improve their quality assurance capability such as systems of the cassava procurement and its quality requirement, processing technology improvement, and diversification of Aci marketing. One of the conducive factors was a development of Aci quality standard for both Aci producer and customers. It also suggested that the external factors should be reviewed in order to extend support for SSTA to provide the better environment for Aci production. Moreover, further study and or research is recommended to carry out from aspects of technology improvement of processing, quality standard of Aci, institutional supporting system, and marketing diversification. To study further, it is better to implement a baseline study involving the Aci producer, cassava producer, and the related institutions aiming at institutional building for better SSTA’s social and economic contribution
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Judul: Karakteristik Suara Song Burung Kenari (Serinus canaria) Postur Besar dan Kecil.
Abstrak: Burung kenari (Serinus canaria) memiliki nyanyian yang sangat bervariasi dengan durasi yang panjang dan merupakan tipe burung bernyanyi open learners. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis karakteristik suara song burung kenari (Serinus canaria). Penelitian dilakukan pada bulan April sampai Juni 2017 di Bogor, Jawa Barat. Perekaman suara song terhadap 12 ekor burung kenari jantan dilakukan dengan menggunakan mikrofon Sennheiser ME66 dan alat perekam Sony PCM-D50. Burung kenari yang digunakan merupakan burung yang pernah mengikuti kontes burung kicau dan memiliki predikat juara kontes burung. Amplitudo, durasi suara, frekuensi, dan volume suara burung dianalisis dengan menggunakan software Raven Pro 1.4. Data tersebut selanjutnya dianalisis deskriptif. Hasil analisis suara menunjukkan bahwa burung kenari memiliki banyak syllable, suara song rapat dan tidak terputus-putus, tempo yang cepat, dan adanya pengulangan suku kata pada setiap suara song. Burung kenari postur kecil memiliki rataan durasi lebih panjang dibandingkan dengan kenari postur besar, tetapi burung kenari besar memiliki rataan max amplitudo, average power, max power, min amplitudo, peak amplitudo, dan peak frekuensi.
Keyword: karakteristik suara (song), kenari, syllable