Judul: Persepsi Petani Binaan ICDF terhadap Peranan Public Relation dalam Penerapan Budidaya dan Penanganan Pasca Panen Buah Jambu Kristal
Abstrak: Public relations (PR) is a process of mutual communication between the various parties, giving rise to mutual understanding and mutual trusting. International Coorporation and Development Fund (ICDF) used the PR’s role in the development and to make a good perception of the Crystal Guava fruit. This study aims to identify farmers' perceptions of the role of PR in the application of cultivation and post-harvest handling of Crystal Guava fruit and related factors, identify the knowledge of farmers on programs that do ICDF and related factors, as well as analyze the profile of Crystal Guava farmers in the Cikarawang’s village. As the results Crystal Guava farmers showed relatively a good perception of the PR’s role as informator and is quite good on the PR’s role as a facilitator and mediator, as well as factors related to farmers' knowledge of the ICDF program conducted training that includes knowledge of cultivation, provision of means of production, and post-harvest training. Knowledge of farmers on programs that do ICDF Crystal Guava farmers is quite high as well as related factors are age, income, farming experience, interaction with farmer groups.
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Judul: Perbandingan Saluran Pemasaran Jambu Kristal Melalui ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN dan Non ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN di Desa Cikarawang Kecamatan Dramaga Kabupaten Bogor
Abstrak: ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN makes a partnership with farmers especially farmers in Cikarang village, in developing commodity of crystal guava. A partnership who lived is coaching and facilitation from ADC to farmers so that farmers can participate in the supply chain of modern markets and not merely a business partnership between suppliers (farmers) with buyers (ADC) (Muflikh 2012). The problem that happens is the whole of crystal guava farmers in Cikarang are trained farmers of ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN, but in marketing their products, not all farmers sell crystal guava to ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN. Farmers choose to use other marketing channels besides ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN, such as: traders (broker) and traditional retailers. This case causes demand crystal guava from modern markets are not met. Therefore , research is needed to determine level of efficiency and difference in 2 channel marketing. This study used qualitative and quantitative analysis. Qualititative analysis is used to determine agencies, functions, structure and market behavior. Quantitative analysis is used to determine the operational efficiency of marketing by the marketing margin value, farmer's share and ratio of benefit over cost and paired t-test. Based on the results of marketing channel ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN has the lowest margin value on channel 2 pattern that is Rp5 000 and has highest farmer's share that are 54.74 and 54.54 % in the pattern of channels 1 and 2. While marketing channel non ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN has largest ratio on 5 channel pattern is that is 5.49 which means for every 1 rupiah was spent as marketing costs will result benefits 5.49 rupiah. Paired t-test against the costs, benefits and B/C ratio indicates there is no difference that significant between average cost, profit and B/C ratio between marketing channel of ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN and non ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN.
Keyword: marketing efficiency, guava crystal’s marketing, ADC IPB-ICDF TAIWAN

Judul: Karakteristik Anatomi Skelet Kepala Buaya senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii).
Abstrak: Buaya sepit atau senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii) merupakan jenis buaya asli Indonesia yang berhabitat di sungai-sungai Sumatera, Kalimantan, dan juga pedalaman Sulawesi. Salah satu ciri khas buaya senyulong adalah bentuk moncong yang runcing dan sempit, namun hingga saat ini informasi mengenai struktur skelet kepala buaya senyulong sangat terbatas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari karakteristik anatomi skelet kepala buaya senyulong yang dikatikan dengan fungsi dan perilakunya. Penelitian dilakukan secara eksploratif dengan melakukan pengamatan, pencatatan, dan pengambilan gambar dari skelet kepala buaya senyulong. Skelet kepala berukuran panjang 70 cm, lebar 29 cm, dan tingggi 17 cm dengan permukaan kasar pada os nasale, os frontale, os maxilla, os mandibula, os lacrimale, os jugale. Jumlah gigi pada buaya ini sebanyak 78 buah, terdiri dari 4 buah gigi premaxila, 16 buah gigi maxila, dan 19 buah gigi mandibula. Pada regio orbitalis ditemukan dua pasang fenestrae temporales yang berkembang baik. Fenestra supratemporale merupakan lubang oval yang membentang di sepanjang os parietale. Fenestra infratemporale berbentuk segitiga dan dibatasi oleh os squamosum, os postorbitale, os jugulare, dan os quadratum. Os mandibula hewan ini mempunyai symphysis mandibularis yang panjang yaitu garis yang melintang di corpus mandibulae. Secara fungsional ukuran symphysis mandibularis berkaitan dengan adaptasi hewan terhadap diet makan.
Keyword: kepala, moncong, Tomistoma schlegelii