Judul: Penerapan Teknologi Pertanian Padi Organik Di Kampung Ciburuy, Desa Ciburuy, Kecamatan Cigombong, Kabupaten Bogor
Abstrak: The objectives of this study are to identify the implementation of organic farming, identify farmer’s perception about the characteristic of organic farming innovation, analyze the influence of farmer’s perception to their farming implementation, and also to analyze the influence of farmer’s characteristic to their perception about organic farming innovation. The unit of analysis in this study are individuals, such as, farmers who assumed to make rational decision before deciding to do farming activities. Population was all farmers in Ciburuy village. Study respondents are the owner and tenant farmers that selected by using simple random sampling. The conclusion of this studies are (1) Farmer’s positive perception has a tendency to higher percentage than farmer’s neutral perception of organic farming. This suggests that the implementation of organic farming was influenced by farmer’s perception. (2) In the broad-land area category, has a tendency to higher percentage than narrow-land area. This suggests that farmer’s perception about the characteristic of organic farming innovation was influenced by farmer’s broad-land area. (3) Farmers who dare to take a middle risks, has a tendency to neutral perception of organic farming innovation. This suggest that farmer’s perception about the characteristic of organic farming innovation was influenced by farmer’s courage to take a middle risks. (4) In innovative categories, farmer’s neutral perception has a tendency to higher percentage than less-innovative categories. This suggests that farmer’s perception about the characteristic of organic farming innovation was influenced by farmer’s innovativeness. (5) In farmer’s categories about highly exposed to information, has a tendency to higher percentage than exposed to information categories. This suggests that farmer’s perception about the characteristic of organic farming innovation was influenced by farmer’s ability to expose the information. (6) In farmer’s cosmopolite categories, has a tendency to higher percentage than farmer’s not cosmopolite categories. This suggests that farmer’s perception about the characteristic of organic farming innovation was influenced by farmer’s ability to live out from their birth place.
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Judul: Analisis Keunggulan Komparatif dan Kompetitif Usahatani Padi Semiorganik di Desa Ciburuy, Kecamatan Cigombong,Kabupaten Bogor
Abstrak: If the views of potential resources and condition of agricultural markets organic products is increasing, then Indonesia has a great opportunity to be producers of organic food. It was realized by the government to make the program “Go Organic 2010”, where one of the purpose is to encourage the development of organic farming who have the competitiveness and sustainability. This research wanted to see rice farming semiorganic run by farmers in the village Ciburuy have comparative and competitive advantages or not. The results of this research are: 1). Semiorganic rice farming run by each farmer characteristics have comparative and competitive advantages, as indicated by PCR and DRC values smaller than one. The land sharecroppers farmers value is 0.851 and 0.826. The land tenant farmers value is 0.532 and 0.632. The farmers owner land value is 0.608 and 0.616; 2). Based on the sensitivity analysis, the most sensitive indicator of the decline occurred in the conditions of the selling price of output, and decrease the amount of output. For indicators the increase of anorganic fertilizer price is not overly sensitive, due to the use of anorganic fertilizers is not too much in rice farming semiorganic.
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Judul: Karakteristik Anatomi Skelet Kepala Buaya senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii).
Abstrak: Buaya sepit atau senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii) merupakan jenis buaya asli Indonesia yang berhabitat di sungai-sungai Sumatera, Kalimantan, dan juga pedalaman Sulawesi. Salah satu ciri khas buaya senyulong adalah bentuk moncong yang runcing dan sempit, namun hingga saat ini informasi mengenai struktur skelet kepala buaya senyulong sangat terbatas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari karakteristik anatomi skelet kepala buaya senyulong yang dikatikan dengan fungsi dan perilakunya. Penelitian dilakukan secara eksploratif dengan melakukan pengamatan, pencatatan, dan pengambilan gambar dari skelet kepala buaya senyulong. Skelet kepala berukuran panjang 70 cm, lebar 29 cm, dan tingggi 17 cm dengan permukaan kasar pada os nasale, os frontale, os maxilla, os mandibula, os lacrimale, os jugale. Jumlah gigi pada buaya ini sebanyak 78 buah, terdiri dari 4 buah gigi premaxila, 16 buah gigi maxila, dan 19 buah gigi mandibula. Pada regio orbitalis ditemukan dua pasang fenestrae temporales yang berkembang baik. Fenestra supratemporale merupakan lubang oval yang membentang di sepanjang os parietale. Fenestra infratemporale berbentuk segitiga dan dibatasi oleh os squamosum, os postorbitale, os jugulare, dan os quadratum. Os mandibula hewan ini mempunyai symphysis mandibularis yang panjang yaitu garis yang melintang di corpus mandibulae. Secara fungsional ukuran symphysis mandibularis berkaitan dengan adaptasi hewan terhadap diet makan.
Keyword: kepala, moncong, Tomistoma schlegelii