Judul: Desain dan Uji Perfomansi Tugal Semi- Mekanis untuk Penanaman Kedelai (Glucine max L.) dan Pembenaman Pupuk Granular
Abstrak: Tanaman kedelai (Glucine max L.)dapat tumbuh pada berbagai jenis tanah seperti Regosol, Gromosol dan Aluvial.Untuk pertumbuhannya diperlukan tanah yang cukup subur, gembur dan cukup unsur hara serta dibutuhkan pI-I 5,7 - 7,O agar tercapai pertumbuhan yang optimum. Kedelai dikenal rakyat sebagai bagian dari makanan sehari-hari sejak 200 tahun. Kedelai merupakan salah satu surnber protein nabati dengan kandungan 39% dan 2% dari seluruh rakyat Indonesia memperoleh kalori dari kedelai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membuat desain tugal semi-mekanis sehingga dapat digunakan untuk penanaman biji Kedelai dan pembenaman pupuk granular. Selain itu juga dilakukan uji performansi untuk rnengetahui hasil kerja tugal semi-mekanis hasil desain. Dengan dernikian diharapkan dapat meningkatkan produktivitas kerja petani kedelai.
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Judul: Desain Dan Uji Performansi Tugal Semi-Mekanis Penanam Dan Pemupuk Kedelai (Pupuk Granular) Untuk Lahan Kering
Abstrak: Kondisi petani Indonesia secara umum dapat dikatakan petani tradisional dengan luas lahan yang relatif kecil, modal yang kecil serta pengetahuan akan teknologi bercocok tanam yang sederhana. Penanaman dan pemupukan pada budidaya kedelai masih dilakukan secara manual dengan metode tugal dan sebar, yang mengakibatkan besarnya tenaga kerja dan rendahnya keseragaman distribusi benih dan pupuk. Penanaman dengan menggunakan tugal semi-mekanis dapat menghemat tenaga kerja 16 - 17 orang per hektar. Pemberian pupuk dilakukan pada saat sebelum penanaman, bersamaan waktu penanaman dan setelah penanaman dengan jenis dan bentuk pupuk yang beragam. Untuk mengurangi biaya operasional unit pupuk, maka dibuat alat tanam dan pemupuk yang letaknya berdampingan.
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Judul: Seroprevalence of Chikungunya and The Risk of Transmission Transmitted Among Blood Donors In Sulawesi-Indonesia
Abstrak: Chikungunya (CHIK) is an arthritogenic alphavirus in the Togaviridae family of arboviruses with an enveloped RNA containing a positive single-stranded 11.8 kb genome. Transmission occurs through the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes, which are commonly found in tropical and temperate regions. Primary vertebrate hosts include monkeys and humans, in whom this virus replicates efficiently (Diallo et al. 1999). Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is known for causing acute illness, manifesting with fever, rash, and arthralgia known as Chikungunya fever (Horwood dan Buchy 2015). Despite the high number of Chikungunya cases in Indonesia, comprehensive data are lacking in CHIKV seroprevalence. Previous studies reported the median seroprevalence of anti-CHIKV antibodies in all situations 18.5%, ranging from 0.0 – 73.% (Harapan et al., 2019). However, the gap in epidemiological data of CHIKV in many regions of Indonesia including Sulawesi, is noteworthy. The objective of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of CHIKV infection among healthy individuals from North and South Sulawesi using archive samples. Additionally, an asymptomatic course of CHIKV infection and the high pre-symptomatic viral load as 108pfu/mL (Appassakij et al. 2013) suggest that the infection can threaten blood transfusion safety. Evidence of CHIKV infection among blood donors (Simmons et al. 2016) indicates transfusion-transmitted is probable, although it has not been documented (Petersen dan Epstein 2014). Our study also aimed to test the archive blood donor specimens from North Sulawesi for CHIKV IgM and viremia to determine blood safety in endemic areas. Samples were screened for anti-CHIKV IgG antibodies to determine exposure to CHIKV using an in-house IgG ELISA as previously described (Kosasih et al. 2013) with minor modifications. CHIKV IgM, a marker for recent infection and endemicity, was tested in 303 samples randomly selected from IgG-positive samples using a Euroimmun anti-CHIKV IgM ELISA kit (Luebeck, Germany) following the manufacturer’s instructions. CHIKV RNA detection was carried out using one-step-qRT-PCR. The data generated were analyzed with IBM-SPSS v20 (IBM Corporation, USA). Chi-square (χ2) test to determine significant differences between categorical variables, and a p-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. As many as 1092 serum and plasma samples were analyzed, with CHIK IgG seropositivity at 53.48% (584/1092). The results also show a statistically significant difference in the seropositive rates based on gender (58.8% male and 48.5% female) and region (53.9% South Sulawesi versus 48.7% North Sulawesi). Seropositivity increased with age; approximately half of adults between their 40s and 60s had seroconverted. Most of the participants, 304 (27.8%), were between 21-30 years. The age groups with the least participants were those >60 years and <20 years, with 93 participants each (8.5%), followed by the 51–60-years age group with 142 (13.0%) participants. In addition to IgG, the overall anti-CHIKV IgM seropositivity comprised 12.9% (39/303). A Chi-square analysis shows a statistical significance of anti-CHIKV IgM seropositivity based on gender and region with p-values (p=0.047 and p=0.038, respectively). On the contrary, there was no significant difference in anti-CHIK IgM based on age. The age group with the most participants was the 21-30 years with 19.3% (16/83), while those with the least participants were those >60 years. The current study
Keyword: Chikungunya, Serosurvey, Sulawesi, Blood donors, ELISA, qRT-PCR.