Judul: Development of Premium Quality Rice as a Strategy to Increase Rice Farmers’ Income: Case Study on Development of Organic Rice in Klaten Regency, Central Java
Abstrak: product on the rice self-sufficiency program leads this rice to the perfect competition market and has not been able to generate rice farmers’ welfare. Development of premium quality rice as a heterogeneous and specific product, and leads this rice to the monopolistic competition market, and believes as an effective policy to generate rice farmers’ welfare. This study aims on evaluating potencies and constraints on development of organic rice as a strategy to increase rice farmers' income with case study on development of organic rice in Klaten Regency, Central Java Province. This study used Cobb Douglass production function and descriptive analysis. Results showed that organic rice productivity and farm income are higher than non-organic rice and almost all of production inputs have significant effect on organic rice production. Development of organic rice has high potencies and also has various constraints including wrong perceptions about organic rice, low financial capability of farmers, scarcity of organics’ fertilizer and pesticide, lack of organic rice processing equipments, low extension and assistance of technology, and weak standards and quality certification system implementation of organic rice. This research concluded that development of organic rice as one of the types of premium quality of rice could be an effective strategy to increase farmers’ income and since organic rice productivity can be equal to the non-organic rice; this will not disturb the rice self-sufficiency program. The government needs to encourage the development of organic rice through increasing the utilization of development potency and handling the various constraints of organic rice development. Government should implement the comprehensive policy especially by increasing the promotion and dissemination of organic rice, providing the capital and improving access of organic rice farmers, improving the ability of farmers in producing organic fertilizers and pesticides, providing post harvesting and equipment organic rice processing, increasing the number of extension workers and intensity of the extension and assistance, providing certification institution, quality assessors, and improving farmers' access to quality certification institution.
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Judul: Telaah Sosial dan Ekonomi Petani Padi Organik
Abstrak: Organic farming is a way of farming based on the utilization of natural ingredients derived from nature. Agricultural inputs and processes related to organic farming are green matures, bio-fertilizes, increased biomass, compostenriched land preparation and the implementation of integrated pest and disease control. Organic farming is expected to improve, safe and healthy food for humas who consume its products. This study uses both quantitative and qualitative approaches, such as using questionnaires and guides for in-depth interview. The purpose of this study are (1) to analyze the characteristics of organic rice farmers, (2) identify the role of the organizations contained in the organic farming system, (3) analyze the income levels of organic rice farmers, (4) identify the factors that inhibit and support organic rice farming. This study showed that in organic rice farming, farmers need larger land to increase their income. Another finding of this study is the importance of farmer organization for the success of organic farming and the increase of farmers’s income.
Keyword: increase in income., social economy of farmers, organic farming

Judul: Beberapa aspek anatomi alat sirkulasi ruang dada kancil
Abstrak: Telah dilakukan penelitian dengan menggunakan 10 ekor kancil dewasa jantan dan betina dengan tujuan untuk menge- tahui beberapa aspek anatomi alat sirkulasi di dalam ruang dada, meliputi jantung, pembuluh darah yang keluar dan ma- suk jantung serta ukuran-ukuran jantung. Kancil merupakan ruminansia terkecil di dunia, hidup di daerah tropika India, Thailand, Malaysia dan Indonesia bagian barat. Hewan ini dilindungi dan mempunyai prospek yang baik untuk hewan penelitian maupun dibudidayakan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa berat jantung rаta-rata adalah 0.69% dari berat rata-rata kancil. Dan ini mirip pada jantung kuda dan anjing. Bentuk jantung lonjong seperti halnya ruminansia. Demikian pula letaknya di dalam ruang dada seperti pada ruminansia dengan adanya Ligamentum sternopericardiacum. Di dalam ventrikel kanan membersit sebuah Musculus (M.) papillaris dari dindingnya dan tiga sampai empat Musculi (Mm.) papillares dari Septum interventriculare. Hanya dua buah Mm. papillares yang berukuran besar dibersitkan dari dinding ventrikel kiri. Percabangan Arteri (A.) coronaria sinistra lebih dominan dari pada A. coronaria dextra. Sedangkan A. sub clavia sinistra dicabangkan langsung dari aorta di dorso- caudal pembersitan Truncus (Tr.) brachiocephalicus…
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