Judul: Karakteristik Wirausaha dan Praktek Manajemen Berperspektif Islam serta Hubunganya terhadap Kesuksesan Agribisnis (Kasus Tiga Wirausaha di Kabupaten Bogor dan Sukabumi)
Abstrak: Indonesia is the country with the largest Moslems population in the world with 205 million of Moslems. United Nation said that the country will be able to build its economy if it has the amount of entrepreneurs as much as 2% of the population. But, unfortunately Indonesia still has not reached the number. On the other hand, the agribusiness sector in Indonesia has a great potential and plays an important role in the development of the national economy. However, this sector still has not been much developed. This problem may be caused by many entrepreneurs who do activities in agribusiness is not halal, might include criminality and not blessed by Allah SWT. The objectives of this research are to analyze the entrepreneur’s characteristic and management practice in Islamic perspective also its relationships to success of agribusiness. Phenomenology is a method which tries to capture the Muslim entrepreneur activities and their management practice. There were three entrepreneurs selected for the case studies. The results of the study showed that they have Islamic characteristics, such as siddiq, amanah, fatanah and talbligh. They have implemented Islamic management of agribusiness in their enterprises. They also have got success of agribusiness based on Islamic value and agribusiness development. There are positive relationships between Islamic entrepreneur characteristics and management practices and their success of agribusiness.
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Judul: Hubungan Karakteristik Wirausaha dengan Kinerja Usahatani Manggis (Studi Kasus: Kelompok Tani Karya Mekar Desa Karacak Kecamatan Leuwiliang Kabupaten Bogor).
Abstrak: Indonesia perlahan-lahan mulai berbenah diri dari berbagai sektor kehidupan, khususnya sektor pertanian. Wirausaha memiliki peran penting dalam pengembangan sektor pertanian, salah satunya melalui Kelompok Tani. Kelompok Tani Manggis Karya Mekar Desa Karacak merupakan salah satu kelompok tani tertua di Kabupaten Bogor. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menganalisis hubungan karakter wirausaha dengan kinerja usaha petani manggis. Karakteristik wirausaha yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini meliputi percaya diri, berorientasi hasil, pengambil risiko, kepemimpinan, keorisinilan, dan berorientasi masa depan. Kinerja usaha petani manggis yang diukur menggunakan omzet. Alat analisis yang digunakan yaitu korelasi Rank Spearman. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa karakteristik percaya diri, keorisinilan, dan berorientasi masa depan memiliki nilai positif dan berkorelasi signifikan terhadap omzet.
Keyword: korelasi, karakteristik wirausaha, kinerja usaha, budidaya manggis

Judul: Pengujian Virus Newcastle Disease Gen VII Isolat Lapang Sebagai Virus Standar Pada Uji Tantang Vaksin
Abstrak: This study was conducted to determine the standard of Newcastle disease virus Gene VII field isolate as a virus challenge to vaccine test. A virus suspension that has previously been tested by HA test then titrated with EID50 using 30 Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) of 10 day old chicken embryonated eggs. In addition, chicken lethal dose50 (CLD50) test were used to determine the virus titer that could cause 50% death of the chicken population. The CLD50 test was used 25 day-old-chickens (DOC) divided into 5 groups. The virus was diluted from 10-1 to 10-8. The 104 to 10-8 dilution of NDV was infected to every group of chicken via eyedrop and intranasal with 0.1 ml/chicken dosage. Haemagglutination test showed that the allantoic fluid were contain high titers of NDV is 512 HAU. The infective NDV that had been titrated by EID50 test showed the virus titers is 109 EID50/0.1 ml or 1010 EID50/ml and the virus titers of CLD50 test e.i 106.48 CLD50/0.1 ml or 107.48 CLD50/ml. These results can be concluded that the NDV Gene VII field isolates were most appropriate to be used as a standard virus to vaccine test
Keyword: Newcastle Disease Virus Gene VII, HA tes, EID50 test, CLD50 test