Judul: Analysis and Development Direction of Food Agriculture Land in Muaro Jambi Regency
Abstrak: Muaro Jambi is new regency in Jambi Province as resulted from regional development of Batanghari Regency in 1999. Its strategic geographical location, as the hinterland, established a closely dependency relationship to the province capital, i.e. Jambi City. Muaro Jambi Regency played a role as a food producer region, while Jambi City was as a core and market region. In order to anticipate the increasing food demand in line with the development of Jambi City as well as Muaro Jambi Regency, a comprehensive food agriculture development plan should be prepared. In this perspective, the existing food agriculture land in Muaro Jambi Regency must be maintained and even extensified. Efforts to increase food production through land extensification require land resources with specific biophysical conditions. Therefore, these efforts need to be supported by land suitability analysis and land resources allocation direction in order to synchronize with the land requirement for any other development sectors. This research aimed at to: (1) analyze landuse and land availability for food crop development in Muaro Jambi Regency, (2) analyze suitability of available land for food crop development in Muaro Jambi Regency, (3) determine leading food commodities in each subregency in Muaro Jambi Regency, (4) analyze food and land requirement until year 2031 in Muaro Jambi Regency, and (5) determine consistency of existing food crop landuses with spatial pattern plan for food crop land and arrange development direction of food agriculture land in Muaro Jambi Regency. This research was divided into seven stages of data analysis. Existing landuse was interpreted from Landsat 7 ETM imageries. Available land for food agriculture development was analyzed by not including existing peatland and peat forest moratorium, mining, forest, waters, Hak Guna Usaha (HGU), plantation and settlement areas. Land suitability analyses were conducted for eight food commodities, i.e. wetland rice, upland rice, corn, soybeans, peanuts, green beans, cassava and sweet potato. Leading commodity in subregency level was analyzed by using Location Quotient (LQ) and Differential Shift (DS) component in Shift Share Analysis (SSA) methods. Analysis of food and land requirement was done up to 2031 based on population, food consumption level and land productivity. Analysis of landuse consistency was conducted by overlaying map of existing landuse for food crop and map of spatial pattern plan for food crop in RTRW. Results of the preceding analyses were then synthesized to arrange direction for food agriculture land development by description method. The total land resource area in Muaro Jambi Regency was amounted to 532,165 ha. The dominant existing landuse was for plantations (310,280 ha; 58.31%). Lands amounted to 481,204 ha (90.42%) were identified as the existing areas of peatland and peat forest moratorium, forest, waters, mining, HGU, settlement and plantation. Parts of the existing wetland ricefields and upland agriculture were included in these areas. The available land for food agriculture development including the existing wetland ricefield, was identified to be 50,961 ha or 9.58% of the total land resource in Muaro Jambi Regency. The results of land suitability analysis of this available land showed areas amounted to 36,202 ha with S2 class (moderately suitable) for upland rice
Keyword: development direction, land availability, land suitability, leading commodity, spatial pattern plan

Judul: Development Strategy of Rice Farming Areas Based on Farmer’s Preferences and Land Resource in South Bangka Regency
Abstrak: As the highest rice producer in the Province of Bangka Belitung Archipelago, South Bangka Regency has not until now capable of being selfsufficiency. Increasing activities in tin mining and plantation trigger farmers to switch their profession and/or to convert the usage of their farmlands, so that it can be an obstacle in establishing food security in the Province of Bangka Belitung Archipelago. Food security is a determining factor of national stability of a country. Various social and political instability can be happened if the food security is disturbed. Therefore, a comprehensive rice farmland development strategy is needed. This research aimed at to: (1) analyze priorities of rice farming development strategy based on hierarchy analysis of the farmer’s preferences, (2) identify land resource for rice farming development based on Landsat image interpretation, land suitability and rice farming spatial pattern of the regency regional spatial arrangement plan, and (3) compose strategy direction of rice farmland development in South Bangka Regency to achieve rice self-sufficiency. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to arrange strategy priority of the rice farming area development that based on the farmer’s preference. The strategies and actions analyzed in AHP was referred to the Law No.41/2009 and Government Ordinance No.12/2010 that were chosen based on land suitability and conditions as well as culture of the rice farmers in South Bangka Regency. To identify the available land resources for rice farming area development the GIS analysis was performed by overlaying the actual land cover, rice farming spatial pattern of the regency regional spatial arrangement plan, and land suitability for rice farming. Results of the farmer’s preference analysis and the available land recources were finally sinthesyzed to get development strategy of the rice farming area. The first two of the farmer prioritized strategies were the development of agricultural infrastructures and the increase in rice production facilities. Farmers of the moderately developed area also considered product marketing improvement as an important strategy, while those of the undeveloped area preferred an increase in the government incentives. Land resource suitable for wetland rice farming were identified with suitability class of S1, S2, and S3 covering area of respectively 8,680, 30, and 3,070 ha, while for upland rice farming with suitability class of S3 covering area of respectively 10,390 ha. The development strategy for the moderately developed area was directed primarily to increase the farm business productivity, while for the undeveloped area was to protect the existence of rice farming activities. By implementing land extensification and intensification scenario, rice self-sufficiency at South Bangka Regency and Province of Bangka Belitung Archipelago level can be achieved in respectively year 2017 and 2032.
Keyword: available land, rice, farmer’s preference, development strategy.

Judul: Leukemia pada kucing
Abstrak: Leukemia pada kucing adalah suatu penyakit yang sangat patogen, disebabkan oleh sejenis virus. Virus ini dikenal sebagai Feline Leukemia Virus atau FeLV. FeLV ini oleh beberapa ahli dikatakan hanya bersifat ganas pada hewan kucing. Penularannya bisa secara horizontal maupun congenital. Kucing pada semua tingkat umur dapat terserang oleh FeLV ini. Khusus pada bentuk "thymic leukemia", virus ini hanya menyerang anak-anak kucing berumur diba- wah 1 tahun. Kucing-kucing liar atau yang tidak terpeli- hara jarang sekali terinfeksi FeLV. Selain dari serangan virus FeLV itu sendiri, maka penyakit leukemia ini bisa disebabkan oleh beberapa fak- tor yang sudah ada dalam tubuh hewan dan sangat menunjang perkembangan penyakit ini, yaitu antara lain tumor, agen toksik, cedera oleh kecelakaan dan gangguan hemopoiesis. FeLV menyerang sel-sel darah dalam tubuh hewan se- hingga pembentukan darah berjalan tidak normal. Terlihat sel-sel darah yang belum dewasa sudah beredar dalam sir- kulasi darah. Bentuk dan jumlahnya tidak lagi seimbang dalam tubuh hewan kucing tersebut. Gejala klinis antara lain kekurusan, ikterus, anemia, lemah, anoreksia, dyspnoe, sulit menelan, batuk, dan membran mukosa pucat. Selain itu kelenjar pertahanan tubuh juga membengkak, kemudian terjadi hepatomegali, spleenomegali dan pembengkakan pada ginjal. Terbentuk massa tumor pada beberapa tempat. Secara biopsy pada sumsum tulang akan terlihat be- berapa perubahan. Sumsum tulang berwarna merah tua atau abu-abu. Konsistensinya lunak dan terdapat banyak sekali memproduksi sel darah putih. Melalui gambaran darah leukemia ini lebih mudah didiagnosa. Jumlah retikulosit rendah sekali. PCV 8-15%, hemoglobin menurun, sel darah putih (WBC) meningkat, lim- fosit meningkat, Alfaglobulin juga ada peningkatan, dan banyak eosinofil yang belum dewasa beredar dalam darah…dst
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