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 Tubuh Buaya Senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii)
Abstrak: Buaya senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii) merupakan buaya besar yang rentan punah dan hanya dapat ditemukan di rawa dataran rendah, danau dan sungai di Sumatera bagian timur, Kalimantan dan Jawa Barat (Indonesia), Serawak, Semenanjung Malaysia (Malaysia) serta Brunei Darussalam. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mempelajari karakteristik anatomi skelet tubuh buaya senyulong yang dikaitkan dengan fungsi dan perilakunya. Penelitian ini menggunakan satu set preparat skelet tubuh buaya senyulong. Parameter penelitian meliputi pengamatan bentuk bagian skelet yang khas, mengukur panjang dan lebar tulang, serta dibandingkan dengan skelet tubuh jenis buaya lain, biawak air (Varanus salvator) maupun literatur yang terkait dengan sistem skelet tubuh hewan. Karakteristik anatomi skelet tubuh buaya senyulong relatif mirip pada jenis buaya lain. Beberapa karakteristik yang ditemukan yaitu, proatlas pada os atlas, os axis hanya memiliki zygapophysis caudalis, bagian lateral dari ossa vertebrae cervicales yang dilengkapi dengan cervical ribs, memiliki jumlah costae sternalis yang banyak, rangkaian ossa gastralia pada abdomen, ossa vertebrae lumbales memiliki zygapophysis cranialis dengan sudut >90o dari sumbu tubuh. Selain itu, os vertebrae caudalis I memiliki caput cranial dan caudal, ossa vertebrae caudales memiliki processus transversus yang semakin memendek ke arah caudal. Di medioventral tulang ini ditemukan ossa chevron dengan hemal arch sampai menjelang akhir ossa vertebrae caudalis. Skelet tubuh buaya senyulong memiliki hubungan yang kokoh dan kompak untuk menunjang fleksibilitas tubuh untuk berjalan, berenang dan berburu mangsa
Keyword: anatomi, buaya senyulong, skelet tubuh