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: Study on the Supply Chain of Sweet Potato Flour Industry
Abstrak: Indonesian people are well known in consuming rice as their staple food. As the national food security becomes very demanding on the rice sufficiency, this situation is growing a problem as rice supply is becoming limited. The government has actually made a serious effort to solve this problem by establishing food diversification programs, such as developing flour agro industry based on local commodities to support the national food security. One of the most potential local commodities of carbohydrate source is sweet potato, as Indonesia is the 4th biggest sweet potato producer in the world (FAO 2007). The implementation of supply chain management in developing the sweet potato flour agro industry is becoming very important. Various parties will be involved in this industry, their requirements need to be fulfilled, and their expectations need to be satisfied. Starting from the farmers producing sweet potato tubers, until the industry producing the sweet potatoes flour. Managing supply chain is about meeting supply to demand, to result higher supply chain surplus among all the parties involved so that this agro industry is hopefully becoming attractive for the parties involved. This research is presenting the characteristic of sweet potato, sweat potato flour, and its potency as the raw material for food industry. The present condition of sweet potato business and sweet potato flour supply chain was also studied, taking West Java as a sample case of study. And as an addition, an efficient supply chain management of sweet potato flour agro industry is designed to become a recommendation, or one of consideration for building the sweet potato flour agro industry. According to this research, sweet potato has good potency to be the raw material of flour industry, but the present supply chain needs to be improved to get the optimum result and advantage.
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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