Judul: Development of Cassava-Based Value-Added Product According to Vanuatu Circumstances
Abstrak: Cassava (Manihotesculantacrantz) in most developing countries such as in South America, Africa and South East Asia is becoming popular in its potential of value added products.Due to its rapidly deterioration within 40-48 hours after harvest, manufactures prefer to convert cassava tubers into more stable forms such as chips and flours so as to prolong the shelf life of the product.Cassava chips and flours are produced as value added products, found great use in food formulation activities in proceed food industries. More recently, the food crop is an important crop for various value added products in bakery, pastry and confectionary industries. In Indonesia, the crop remains first and foremost a food crop used in great variety of dishes. In the outer district of TrenggalekRegency in East Java Province, the root crop has been an alternative income besides other commodities. The region has been involved in various developments on cassava value added product. One of these developments is the production of modified cassava flour(mocaf). Mocaf has recently been introduced as one way of improving the characteristics of cassava flour through fermentation principles of lactic acid.This new product is no inferior to wheat flour and has high potential to substitute wheat flour in most of its applications. On the other hand, in Vanuatu where cassava is one of the stable food, have lack the knowledge to benefit from this common root crop. Since the driving force to be able to benefit from cassava has never been ceased, this research was well designed to fill this gap of development in Vanuatu as a means to provide alternative income besides copra, cocoa, kava and cattle. The research is intended to study the whole process of developing cassava value added products from farm to table.Lesson learned from the research will be appllied according to Vanautu circumstances. Thus, there is no better lesson learned and knowledge gained than to start with the six principles of supply chain management as an approach to identify the three selected management style in the outer districts of Trenggalek region. These management style includes famer, cluster and cooperation. The method used were direct participatory (observation, practise, interview and discussion) along with Supply Chain Management(SCM) approach as means to study their efficiency and profitability along the supply chain. The research performed SWOT analysis on the overall operation of the management style based on SCM approach. Hence, it is concluded that best potential management style development towards cassava value added product according to Vanuatu circumstance would be the farmer and cooperation management style. The two management style execute good mutual relationship and creative logistics as far as SCM concept is concerned. With that value, it is believedit would reduce difficulties and constraints in Vanuatu circumstances where finance and lack of government policies are still very uncertain. As such, appropriate strategies were developed from the lesson learned and integrated into Vanuatu circumstances.The strategies in reducing market risks by working towards interdependency among supply chain members, Cooperating to learn how to create value together and then collaborating to consistently utilise the new value as a source of competitive
Keyword: Modified Cassava Flour, Value Added Product, Vanuatu Circumstances

Judul: Quality assurance strategy development (case study in small scale tapioca agroindustry )
Abstrak: The main food crops in Indonesia consist of paddy, cassava, maize, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and soybeans. Among these six main food crops, cassava is one of important crops in which cassava is the most potential and important in many kinds of tuber crop to produce starch as a raw material for agroindustries producing many commodities to customers. Before processing tapioca, the crude tapioca so called “Aci” is produced from cassava by the small scale tapioca agroindustry (SSTA). In this particular two processing steps, the quality of Aci is a key issue to ensure its quality to produce tapioca in reliance of quality addressed to customers and end-users to satisfy their requirement including local food industries. The objectives of this research were 1) to identify the factors including problems and issues in SSTA from view point of quality assurance, and 2) to develop the necessary strategy for improving quality assurance in SSTA. The research was implemented by three components, namely field survey, data analysis, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). Data analysis was done by Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat (SWOT) method. The determination for strategy development was carried out by QFD to identify the requirement by SSTA and processing importance. The result indicated that the requirements of cassava ’s attribute identified in SSTA were freshness, discoloration, contaminant, variety, and size. The identifications of processing importance were cassava procurement, smashing, waste handling, sieving, sun drying, grinding, and marketing. Among these processing steps, the most important processing were cassava procurement and marketing of Aci. The current condition of Aci producer was analyzed its position being in the quadrant-I with the value of 2.54 and 2.81 in SWOT matrix showing that Aci producer allows to take an aggressive strategy development approach to improve their quality assurance capability such as systems of the cassava procurement and its quality requirement, processing technology improvement, and diversification of Aci marketing. One of the conducive factors was a development of Aci quality standard for both Aci producer and customers. It also suggested that the external factors should be reviewed in order to extend support for SSTA to provide the better environment for Aci production. Moreover, further study and or research is recommended to carry out from aspects of technology improvement of processing, quality standard of Aci, institutional supporting system, and marketing diversification. To study further, it is better to implement a baseline study involving the Aci producer, cassava producer, and the related institutions aiming at institutional building for better SSTA’s social and economic contribution
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Judul: Infectious laryngo tracheitis pada unggas
Abstrak: Infectious Laryngo Tracheitis merupakan penyakit pada unggas yang disebabkan oleh virus yang mempunyai sasaran saluran pernapasan bagian atas Penyebab penyakit Infectious Laryngo Tracheitis Univers (ILT) adalah virus yang termasuk kelompok virus Herpes sering disebut Tarpeia avium. Virus tersebut tersusun dari inti asam deoksi ribonukleat yang dilengkapi dengan pembung- kus yang merupakan derivat dari lemak serta mempunyai garis tengah antara 195-250 nano meter. Pada temperatur kamar virus tersebut dapat bertahan selama 15 hari dalam keadaan tanpa pengawetan. Virus penyebab Infectious Laryngo Tracheitis mempunyai kepekaan terhadap zat kimia golongan pelarut lemak seperti: phenol dan kresol. Induk semang definitip penyakit Infectious Laryngo Tracheitis adalah ayam, tetapi burung merak, itik dan kalkun pernah dilaporkan dapat terinfeksi. Mammalia dan golongan rodensia merupakan hewan yang tahan terhadap infeksi penyakit ini. Pada manusia penyakit Infectious Laryngo Tracheitis diduga mempunyai hubungan dengan timbulnya gangguan neuralgia yang bersifat sub-akut akibat infeksi virus Herpes jenis lain yang disebut virus Sub-acute Myelo Optico Neuropathi (virus SMON).
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