Judul: Analisis Kapasitas Kelembagaan dan Penerimaan Petani Anggota Poktan Program Nestle Cocoa Plan PISAgro
Abstrak: Cocoa has a strategic role in the Indonesian economy, both as a non-oil export and as the cocoa farmer source of income in some areas in Indonesia. While the world demand continues to increase, some countries try to inrease their production through several program and scheme. As a public private partnership that aims to help Indonesian goverment to address national food security by increasing agricultural production, PISAgro, through The Nestle Cocoa Plan Program, has established 100 field schools that train more than 1000 cocoa farmers in Mamuju, West Sulawesi. This study attempts to explain the level of participation and capacity of farmer’s group in implementing the program and how The NCP Program influence the cocoa production and farmer’s welfare. The results showed that the capacity degree of farmers group rely on the high level category. However it is still dominated by social activities than economy activities. Moreover, The NCP Program has a potential role in increasing the cocoa production and farmer’s income in Mamuju, West Sulawesi.
Keyword: productivity, Nestle Cocoa Program (NCP), income, Capacity of farmer’s group

Judul: Produksi Biji Kakao Terfermentasi dan Faktor – Faktor yang Memengaruhinya (Kasus : Petani Binaan Nestle Cocoa Plan di Kecamatan Kalukku, Kabupaten Mamuju, Sulawesi Barat)
Abstrak: Indonesia is one of the world's largest cocoa producer. However, Indonesian cocoa beans have lower quality than cocoa beans from other country because Indonesia they are not fermented. The objectives of this research were to describe how the production of fermented cocoa beans supported by Nestle Cocoa Plan Program at Kalukku Sub District, Mamuju District, West Sulawesi, to compare farmer’s income by doing postharvest of cocoa beans with and without fermentation, and to identify the determinants that influence farmers decision to produce fermented cocoa beans. This research used binary logistic regression and postharvest income analysis to answer research objectives. The income over total cost of postharvest cocoa bean with fermentation is greater than without fermentation. The difference of postharvest income with and without applied fermentation was Rp 1 656.38 per kilograms. The factors that significantly influence decision of farmers to produce fermented cocoa beans is price difference, information access to fermentation technique, and the distance of farmer with BT Cocoa purchasing unit.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), postharvest income, binary logistic regression, fermentation, cocoa

Judul: Hamiltonian formulation for linear waves motion in two layers fluid
Abstrak: The surface wave could be considered as a wave that separates two fluids, namely water and air. Based on this assumption, it is introduced the interfacial wave, a wave between two layers of fluid with different density. The formulation of interfacial waves motion begins with deriving the base equation of irrotational ideal fluid. Furthermore, according to irrotational fluid assumption, the base equation can be stated in velocity potential. In this derivation, the fluids domain is assumed to be restricted by rigid lid boundary conditions, both at the upper and lower limit. Therefore, the interfacial waves motion can be explained in a hamiltonian formulation. In the hamiltonian formulation, total energy is defined as the sum of kinetic and potential energy. The hamiltonian system is obtained from reduction of kinetic energy by using the Dirichlet Neumann Operator. The resulted kinetic energy equation is nonlinear. Therefore, this form is linearized by first part of the Taylor expansion. This linearization gives a dispersion relation of linear wave. Based on this dispersion relation, the phase speed of the linear wave depends on the density ratio of the two layers fluid.
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