Judul: Keuntungan Pengelolaan Hutan Rakyat Pola Kemitraan di Wilayah Bogor Barat (Kasus Kelompok Tani Rimba Lestari dan Sejahtera Tani).
Abstrak: The partnership pattern has believed to be a way to overcome the capital problems in the developing and construction of community forests. Partnerships cooperation in developing community forest enterprises can improve opportunities chance and gain business profit. The objectives of this research were to analyze the ratio and economic profit sharing and also to know the pattern of community forest business partnerships. The research was conducted on two groups of farmers who runs a business partnership of community forests, which Sejahtera Tani Farmer Group in Cibunian village of the Pamijahan District and Rimba Lestari Farmer Group in Karacak village of the Leuwiliang District. The result showed that both of Farmer Group have developed the community forest business with partnership patern between farmers, land owners, and investors. Business profit was earned by Sejahtera Tani Farmer Group was Rp 238 500 000/hectar and Rimba Lestari Farmer Group was Rp 162 250 000/hectar. Profit sharing of Sejahtera Tani Farmer Group was allocated 30% for farmers and 70% for the investor. Meanwhile the profit sharing of Rimba Lestari Farmer Group was allocated 30% for farmers, 40% for investors, 20% for land owners and 10% for farmer group.
Keyword: Community Forest, Partnership and Profits Economic

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: 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