Judul: Persepsi petani hutan rakyat terhadap kredibilitas penyuluh kehutanan: studi kasus Kecamatan Rao Kabupaten Pasaman Provinsi Sumatera Barat
Abstrak: Empowerment of rural communities around the public forest can be done as one of alternative in order to improve the quality of human resources in rural communities. Forestry counselor plays an important role in disseminating information to the forest farmer community for a better change. The more credible a counselor, then the possible occurrence of change will be better. The purpose of this study was to assess the farmer’s perceptions about the credibility of forest counselor as the sources of information agents about forest management and toassess the factors that affect farmers perceptions about the credibility of forestry counselor based on the Spearman correlation test method. The research was conducted in Distric Rao, Pasaman, West Sumatra Province in August 2010. The materials used in this study was questionnaire. The instrument used was calculators, stationery, cameras, PC with the software SPSS 17 and Microsoft Excel. This study uses regression analysis and correlation analysis by taking a census respondents from 67 members from the forest farmer groups. Based on the research, the relationship between characteristics of forest farmers with farmer's perception to the credibility of forestry counselor can be found with the equation : Y1 = 85,448 to 0.90 X1 +1.624 X2 - 0.29 X3 + 2.600E- 7X4, Y2 = 27.047 to 0.077 X1 + 0.17 X2 - 0.48 X3 + X4 2.885E-8, and Y3 = 20.277-.040 X1 + .174 X2 - .067 X3 + X4 5.584E-8, where Y as Forest farmers perceptions on the credibility of forestry counselor, X1 as an age, X2 as an education level, X3 as the length of joining in forest farmer group and X4 as an income of group members. Based on these equations, we can see that the relationship between characteristics of forest farmers (age, education and the length of joining in forest farmer group) have a fairly strong relationship with perceptions about the credibility of forestry counselor. Forest farmers have a perception that forestry counselor is plenty enough on fulfilling its role, has a good communication and trustworthy as a forestry counselor agents. The number of interactions between forest farmers with forestry counselor workers either formally or informally has significantly affect farmers' perceptions of the credibility of forestry counselor.
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Judul: Analisis Finansial dan Kontribusi Hutan Rakyat terhadap Kesejahteraan Rumah Tangga Petani (di Desa Pasir Madang, Kecamatan Sukajaya, Kabupaten Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat)
Abstrak: The pressure on forest resources led to an excessive exploitation of forest resource so that it no longer able to provide optimal benefits even otherwise cause damage and decreased productivity of forest resources. One alternative solution to this problem is to plant forests construction in forest areas that are not productive especially outside Java or other alternatives is the construction of the community forest in the island of Java also outside of Java island. The result of the community forest development activities in addition to the ecologically can support the environment, can also be produced folk wood currently has evolved into a commodity which has a pretty good economic value and perceived by the public that this effort can provide extra income. The community forest as an approach to development of forestry is also prolific on environmental sustainability and an increase in people's income, so that needs to be developed with the better, so as to provide a high timber production and improve the welfare of farmers, while paying attention to power support and function of forests. This research aims to understand further the characteristics and role of the community forest in the Pasir Madang region, particularly from aspect of the community forest’s role against the welfare of the family. This research studies economic condition community forest farmers through the calculation of the balance of the income and spending the community forest farmer families. Further this research examines the contribution of community forest against the peasant household family income and identifying the motivation of farmers in community forest management. Data collected through interview of selected respondens of community forest farmers by using purposive sampling method. Additional information collected through literature studies on secondary data sources from a variety of related government agencies. Respondents farmers who is interviewed in this study consisted of 30 people who come from the village of Pasir madang, Bogor regency, West Java. Based on these studies it is known that most of the people in the village of Pasir Madang managed using agroforestry systems. The community forest in the Pasir Madang village serves as the public savings which can be harvested when the farmer needed the money in relatively large amounts and in urgent circumstances. A pattern of harvesting as it is known in terms of as a “tebang butuh” system. The community forest farmer respondents on site research mature majority in the range of 41-50 years old. The level of education respondents mostly only to elementary schools. In general the community forest farmer has a sideline job in addition to working on their forest field. Farmers in this area have a household incomes larger than level its expenditures, so they are on surplus condition. From the expenditure, allocation largest farmers used to terms of food. The community forest have a very important contribution in the structure of household income of farmers. By using the Sajogyo’s poverty line, more than three quarters of respondents the community forest farmers are above the poverty line or are able to meet the minimum basic needs. The condition is quite encouraging motivation
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Judul: Infeksi Virus Parainfluenza Pada Anjing
Abstrak: Virus parainfluenza anjing termasuk famili Paramyxoviridae, berbentuk pleomorf dengan ukuran bervariasi (bergaris tengah antara 100-500 nm), berpembungkus peka ether, berisi genom RNA dan secara serologis mempunyai kesamaan dengan virus SV-5 kera; dikenak sebagai salah satu kausa penting dari sindrom "kennel cough". Infeksinya dapat mengenai anjing semua umur yang belum pernah terinfeksi atau mendapatkan vaksinasi mengakibatkan gejala klinis ringan yang terbatas pada traktus respirasi atu infeksi yang secara klinis tidak memperlihatkan gejala nyata. Gejala klinis yang nampak setelah masa inkubasi (1-5 hari) terlewati berupa batuk yang tidak berat selama beberapa hari, berbagai tingkat tonsilitis dan pharyngitis dan kadang-kadang ditemukan kenaikan temperatur rektal antara 1-2 derajat C dari temperatur normal rat-rata. Anjing terinfeksi mengandung virus pada traktus respirasi bagian atas dan bawah serta limfonoduli sampai hari ke 9 setelah infeksi. Penyebaran virus antar anjing terjadi secara aerogen.
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