Judul: Penanganan budidaya kentang  (Solanum tuberosum l.) Di hikmah farm, Pangalengan, Bandung, Jawa Barat
Abstrak: This internship has been done to learn management aspect of potato cultivation and to train the ability of the author to work on field as technician or manager. This internship was implanted at Hikmah Farm, Desa Margamukti, Kecamatan Pangalengan, Kabupaten Bandung, West Java on 14 February until 14 June 2011. The internship was divided into three work section, as field labor for one month, as the assistant foreman for one month, and as the assistant head of estates for two months. The particular aspect that has been observed is influence of early ridging against the growth of potato plant. The treatment that has been done is height of ridging on 10, 15, 20 cm and observed variable was percentage of seedling growth, height of plant, number of stolons per stem and tuber weight at harvest. Analysis result has shown that the treatment height of ridging has significantly influence on percentage of seedling growth on 21st day after planting and has very significantly influence on height of plant on 28th day after planting.
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Judul: Panen dan Pascapanen pada Umbi Bibit dan Umbi Konsumsi Kentang (Solanum tuberosum L.) di Hikmah Farm, Pangalengan, Bandung, Jawa Barat.
Abstrak: General purpose of the internship was to study the potato cultivation and to train technical and managerial skills in problem analyzing on field, especially on the purpose harvesting and postharvest handling aspect. The specific purpose was to observe the effect of harvesting time quality of the tuber, the influence of harvesting method efficiency of harvesting labour and losses of product, the influence of the height of fall out tuber on the damage of tuber, and to observe the percent loss that of product in the field and the storage. The results of specific aspect showed that longer harvesting time harder the tuber skin up to 100 %. Plants that harvested too young will produce small tubers percentage higher than large tubers. Acquisition of tuber fresh weight will be low if the harvesting time is less than 90 days and more than 100 days after planting. Method harvest 1 (digging with gala, drying, sorting and grading, rafting step 1, transport step 2 ) is the highest to get the crop quality. Method harvest 2 (digging with a hoe, drying, sorting and grading, rafting step 1, transport step 2) is the best way to get the efficiency of harvesting labour. Damage of tuber for seed is higher than tuber for consumption. The highest tuber damage occurs when the tuber is dropped at a height of 2.5 m. Percentage tuber losses in storage was higher than losses in the field. The range yield loss in the field between 1 % up to 3 % and yield loss in the storage between 9 % up to 52 %.
Keyword: yield loss, post-harvest, potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), method harvest, harvest

Judul: Approximation of the Median of Poisson Distribution Using the Relation of Poisson-Gamma Distribution
Abstrak: A major drawback of median is that median cannot usually be defined in closed form, even in the cases where their distribution functions are known. This study gives an approximation of the closed form for the median of the Poisson distribution by using the relation of Poisson-Gamma distribution. The approximation uses elementary techniques based on the monotonicity of certain sequences involving tail probabilities of the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Furthermore, a closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation 􀜧|􀜰􀰒 􀵆 􀜯􀝁􀝀􁈺􀜰􀰒􁈻| is also studied. The median is relevant because of the fact that it minimizes the mean absolute deviation of a Poisson random variable (􀜰􀰒􁈻 by considering median as central tendency.
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