Judul: Analisis Efisiensi Pemasaran Jagung di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat
Abstrak: The establishment of the selling price is influenced by the development of corn prices prevailing in the international market, and marketing agencies are involved. Have not be transmitted between price of the international market with the local market NTB, identifying inefficient marketing system. This research aims to analyze the efficiency of marketing through the marketing channels, market structure, market conduct, market performance, and identify marketing strategies corn in NTB. The analysis of S‐C‐P that includes marketing margin, price‐share, market integration, and marketing mix. The results indicate inefficient marketing corn in NTB, shown by 48.66% of the farmers are using a second channel, which farmers sell immediately to big traders. The market structure leads to be oligopsoni, the dominant big traders determine the price of corn in NTB, and margins distribution of the three marketing channels is not evenly. While the vertical market integration is a strong in the long term and short term only to big traders. Marketing strategy big traders have not been able to improve marketing efficiency, which is due to the variation of the product being marketed is pipil the dry corn, determination of sales price depending on the quality of feed raw materials, and the cost of production. While promotions are made from word of mouth, and most wholesalers choose a location on the main street the easy route of public transport, while 50 percent are in the township.
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Judul: Tataniaga Kentang di Desa Sangiang, Kecamatan Banjaran, Kabupaten Majalengka, Jawa Barat
Abstrak: Potato is one of advantage commodities in Indonesia which has economic value. The high disparity of potato’s price between the farmer’s and the consumer’s level also the low price of potato at the farmer’s level may cause low farmer’s share. This research was aimed to analyze the institution, function and marketing distribution; identify the market structure; and to analyze the operational efficiency by marketing margin, farmer’s share and ratio of benefits to cost approach. Observation and interview were done toward the farmers in Sangiang village by using purposive sampling method and for the other marketing institution by using snowball sampling. There were five channels in potato marketing system with different functions and market structure. The result showed that the potato marketing system in Sangiang Village was not efficient, whereas the farmers still role as a price taker. Therefore, the government’s and instructor’s role are very important in empowering the farmers and the farmer’s group to solve the problem faced in potato marketing system in Sangiang Village.
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Judul: Infeksi leucocytozzon simondi (Mathis dan Leger, 1910) pada itik
Abstrak: Leucocytozoonosis pada itik adalah penyakit protozoer yang disebabkan oleh parasit darah Leucocytozoon simondi. Protozoa ini ditularkan oleh lalat penghisap darah (Simulium sp.). Di dalam tubuh induk semang antara (vektor) Simulium parasit mengalami tahap gametogoni yang kedua (pembentukan gamet dan pembuahan) dan sporogoni. Pembuahan makrogamet oleh mikrogamet terjadi segera sesudah vektor menghisap darah itik yang mengandung gametosit. Pembuahan menghasilkan zigot yang dapat bergerak (ookinet) yang masuk dinding usus vektor dan kemudian memasuki tahap sporogoni. Tahap sporogoni memerlukan waktu kira-kira 1 minggu (Fallis dan Desser, 1977) untuk menghasilkan sporozoit. Sporozoit bergerak menuju kelenjar ludah vektor, tempat mereka berkumpul. Sporozoit dipindahkan ke dalam tubuh itik pada saat vektor menghisap darah itik. Di dalam tubuh itik, parasit mengalami tahap skizogoni dan tahap gametogoni yang pertama (pembentukan gametosit). Sporozoit memasuki peredaran darah itik dan memasuki sel-sel parenkhim hati membentuk skizon hepatik (Fallis et al., 1974). Setelah 4 6 hari, skizon hepatik dewasa menghasilkan merozoit dan sinsitia. Merozoit dari skizon hepatik memasuki eritrosit dan eritroblas membentuk gametosit bundar, sedangkan sinsitia memasuki sel-sel RES di seluruh tubuh membentuk megaloskizon. Megaloskizon dewasa terbentuk dalam waktu 5 hari di dalam sel-sel itu dan menghasilkan merozoit. Merozoit dari megaloskizon memasuki limfosit dan leukosit lainnya membentuk gametosit memanjang. ...
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