Judul: Analisis Kelayakan Usaha Kemitraan dan Kontribusi Pengelolaan Hutan Rakyat terhadap Pendapatan Rumah Tangga Petani (Studi Kasus Kelompok Tani Rimba Lestari di Desa Karacak, Kecamatan Leuwiliang)
Abstrak: Pengelolaan hutan rakyat pola kemitraan merupakan salah satu cara untuk mengatasi permasalahan modal dalam pembangunan usaha hutan rakyat. Kelompok tani Rimba Lestari, Desa Karacak dalam pengelolaan hutan rakyat mengembangkan pola kemitraan antara petani, pemilik lahan, dan pemodal atau investor. Pola kemitraan ini diharapkan dapat memenuhi kebutuhan bahan baku industri kayu dan dapat meningkatkan pendapatan petani. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis kelayakan dan keuntungan usaha yang diperoleh, hubungan dengan industri kayu serta kontribusinya terhadap pendapatan rumah tangga petani dalam pengelolaan hutan rakyat kemitraan. Kelayakan usaha hutan rakyat kemitraan secara finansial layak untuk dikembangkan dengan nilai NPV Rp438 894 413/ha/tahun, BCR 4.37, dan IRR 48%. Pembagian keuntungan kelompok tani Rimba Lestari dialokasikan untuk petani 20%, pemilik lahan 40%, dan investor 40%. Kontribusi hutan rakyat terhadap pendapatan total petani adalah sebesar 34.52 %. Kelompok tani Rimba Lestari melakukan pemasaran hasil kayunya berdasarkan pemesanan dari konsumen.
Keyword: Kelayakan usaha, Kemitraan, Keuntungan, Kontribusi pendapatan

Judul: Analisis Pola dan Hubungan Kemitraan di Hutan Rakyat Rimba Lestari Desa Karacak Kecamatan Leuwiliang
Abstrak: Capital is factor which being a constraint in any development of community forests. Partnership is believed to be a solution of this problem. Farmer group of Rimba Lestari (RL) in Karacak village develop community forest based on bussiness partnerships between smallholder farmers, land owners, and investors. The purpose of this study was to analyze the pattern and level of partnership, as well as knowing the pattern of results based on an analysis of the financial benefits. Partnership of RL community forest management was belong to Agribussiness Operational Partnership pattern. Partnership of RL community forest management is worth to be developed, it shows from the view of partnerships rate of 721.67, that is categorized as Partnership Prima Madya. The relationship of the bussiness need to be encouraged and also it needs an agreements of corporation for make a sustainable management. In addition, the level of relationship and the partnership of RL community forest management is also feasible to be developed based on the analysis of financial benefit with a value of NPV Rp339 769 771 /ha/yr and BCR 4.63 /ha/yr.
Keyword: The level of relationship., Partnership, Community Forest

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