Judul: Pemberdayaan masyarakat sebagai pendekatan introduksi silase beraditif untuk keberlangsungan penyediaan hijauan berkualitas di KPSBU Lembang
Abstrak: An attempt to use community empowerment approach in introduction silage technology as alternative to sustainable forage availability in KPSBU Lembang have been done through serial of training activities. The trainings were aimed to improve farmer knowledge and skill on type of forage and their quality, forage cultivation, forage preservation and silage quality evaluation. The farmers were also involved in empowerment evaluation to describe the impact of empowerment process. Empowerment program were based on Bartle (2009) principal, while effectivity of empowerment worker were evaluated through development of logical framework system based on National Management Consultant (2009) criteria on empowerment process. The program was also accompanied by field worker and formation of farmer group. The results showed that there were an improvement in farmer confidential which were shown by their ability to express themselves and improve their knowledge through group discussion. Although the program were designed and done based on community empowerment approach, however, the independency of the farmer were not fully achieved. There were an significant improvement of several empowerment components such as participation, service provided by empowerment worker, formation of farmer group, availability of silage information, however, several others components were still need to be improved. There were still some problem in empowering the farmer to adopt silage total mixed ration (TMR) technology such as the dominant position of leader in making a decission. There is a need to intensify the empowerment vertically and horizontally so that farmer could adopt the technology sustainably. Providing of silo at the early stage of adoption are also necessary.
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Judul: Tingkat Partisipasi dan Kemandirian Petani Alumni Sekolah Lapangan Pengelolaan Tanaman Terpadu (Kasus Desa Kebon Pedes, Kecamatan Kebon Pedes, Kabupaten Sukabumi, Provinsi Jawa Barat)
Abstrak: Agriculture development approach carried out centrally and top down. Failure in reaching development agriculture efforts, made the expert at that time said it was very important to change paradigm of agriculture development to sustainable bottom up approach. Field School (SL-PTT) is as a part of agriculture extension activities, is pointed to empower the farmers, it is one of the way to reach development agriculture point, so it has been more interesting to learn as far. The aim of the present research was to analyse correlation farmer empowerment model of SL-PTT with level of participation and autonomy. This research used quantitative method and was supported with qualitative data. The quantitative data were collected by using survey method on 42 farmers participant of SL-PTT. The respondents were selected by applying a stratified random sampling method. In other hand, the qualitative data were collected with in-dept interview. The results show that activity of SL-PTT had a significant correlation with level participation and autonomy farmers. Most farmers were in middle participation level and autonomy.
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Judul: Posisi Filogenetik Kura-Kura Carettochelys Insculpta  (Reptillia: Testudinata)
Abstrak: Carettochelys insculpta is an endemic freshwater turtle of southern Papua and northern Australia. Phylogenetic position of this turtle is remain unresolved until now. Most of the research conducted show close relationships of C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. However, some of the research show distance between C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. This research is conducted to analyze phylogenetic relationship between C. insculpta and other members of Testudinata using 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, and both gene as markers. DNA samples were obtained from three different organisms of C. insculpta. Two species used as outgroups were Alligator mississippiensis and Iguana iguana. Phylogenetic analysis was carried out using Neighbor-Joining method with Felsenstein 1981 (F81) modeltest. A polytomy tree of Testudinata was produced by using 12S rRNA gene. However, analysis using 16S rRNA and both genes as markers confirmed that C. insculpta was located between the Chelonidae and the Trionychidae family.
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