Judul: Rencana Bisnis Pembuatan Partikel dari Sekam Padi Berbasis Wirakoperasi di Kabupaten Karawang
Abstrak: Rice husk is a side product from rice mills that potential to be developed. Until now, rice husk has not been utilized optimally. Innovations to utilize the rice husk is to process the husk into a particle board using hot compression technology. This research aims to design a business plan of manufacturing particle board from the rice husk through cooperative entrepreneur approach. The market target of this product is China’s furniture industries. Particle board are sold with the price of USD20 or Rp240 000. The results of financial analysis from this business plan said to be worthy to realized, judging from investment criteria that the NPV of Rp6 175 368 591, Net B/C of 3.5, IRR of 54 percent of Gross B/C of 1.2 and Payback Period for 2.6 years. Net profit earned in the first year of Rp88 389 793 and years later of Rp257 285 213. Through cooperative entrepreneur approach, the farmers obtain additional benefit from the husk, therefore increasing the farmers’s income.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), cooperative entrepreneur, husk, business plan, particle board

Judul: Rencana Bisnis Pembuatan Minyak Bekatul Padi Berbasis Wirakoperasi di Kecamatan Cilamaya Kabupaten Karawang
Abstrak: Rice bran is a by-product of rice mills which availability is abundant but its use is not fully optimized. To optimize the use of rice bran, then by using the technology, it can be processed into rice bran oil which is rich in vitamins and oryzanol. This research aims to optimize the potential of rice bran as well as designing a business plan based cooperative entrepreneur. Financial analysis shows that rice bran oil manufacturing business plan is feasible to be realized for investment because it has NPV of Rp5 771 920 329, Net B / C of 2, an IRR of 56 percent, Gross B / C of 1.04 and a payback period of 3 years 11 months.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), rice bran oil, rice bran, cooperative entrepreneur, business plan,

Judul: Posisi Filogenetik Kura-Kura Carettochelys Insculpta  (Reptillia: Testudinata)
Abstrak: Carettochelys insculpta is an endemic freshwater turtle of southern Papua and northern Australia. Phylogenetic position of this turtle is remain unresolved until now. Most of the research conducted show close relationships of C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. However, some of the research show distance between C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. This research is conducted to analyze phylogenetic relationship between C. insculpta and other members of Testudinata using 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, and both gene as markers. DNA samples were obtained from three different organisms of C. insculpta. Two species used as outgroups were Alligator mississippiensis and Iguana iguana. Phylogenetic analysis was carried out using Neighbor-Joining method with Felsenstein 1981 (F81) modeltest. A polytomy tree of Testudinata was produced by using 12S rRNA gene. However, analysis using 16S rRNA and both genes as markers confirmed that C. insculpta was located between the Chelonidae and the Trionychidae family.
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