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: Kemandirian Petani dalam Pen ambilan Keputusan Adopsi lnovasi (Kasus Petani Sayuran di Provinsi Jawa Barat)
Abstrak: The research was carried out in West Java Province, and it has been designed to 􀀁n,􀀂i"!r several problems, namely: the farmers autonomy on decision-making of the on of innovation and factors influencing the decision, and empowerment strategy to Jl􀁓J'a.se the farmers autonomy on decision making of the adoption of innovation. The bjective of this research are: (1) to study the level of the farmers autonomy on si n-making of the adoption of innovation and to determine factors related to the armers autonomy, and (2) to formulate effective strategic approach and empowerment ode to increase the farmers autonomy on decision-making of the adoption of innovation The number of sample are 270 people, consist of two strata, stratum I: 60 rogr ssive farmers, stratum II: 210 developing farmers. Those respondents were selected y S atified Random Sampling Method. The data were collected by interview and bse ation. The quantitative data had been analyzed using statistical Spearman orre ation and Structural Equation Model (SEM). The result of the research showed that: (1·) in general, there are cultural changes of egetable farmers from cultivated orientation to the market driven; (2) the level of the arm rs autonomy are in the middle scale, but the level of the farmers autonomy on ecis on-making of the adoption ;0f innovation at progressive farmers are heighter than deve oping farmers; (3) the farmers self-needs-awarness has positive correlation to the fann rs autonomy on decision-making of the adoption of innovation in all of farmers t􀂲l gy, therefore, the future empowerment led to the improvement of the farmer self­need -awarness; and (4) Empowerment with general approach was not effective because of di ferent conditions, problems, and real needs of each farmers tipology, therefore, it need the improvement of strategy and tipology empowerment model oriented to the local ty and client type.
Keyword: Adoption; Decision making; Vegetables farmer;

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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