Judul: Pemodelan multi-kriteria untuk pengembangan wilayah berbasis komoditas unggulan di kabupaten Lampung Timur
Abstrak: Agricultural sector has become a very dominant sector in Lampung Timur regency. It gives significant contribution to local economic growth. One of several approaches in order to develop agriculture is setting the primary commodities in each district. Primary commodities are set by integrating biophysics, socioeconomics, and institutional aspects. Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) is one of many decision support systems that can be used to evaluate multi-criteria for land allocation. The general objective of this research is to set priority directories for regional development based on agriculture in Lampung Timur regency using MCE, and the other objectives are: (1) to evaluate food crops sub sector role in Lampung Timur District; (2) to identify primary commodities in each district in Lampung Timur; (3) to analize socio-economics fasilities hierarchy; and (4) to evaluate land suitability for primary commodities. Results showed that paddy, cassava and maize are food crop primary commodities with each land availabities are 52 714 hectares, 56 441 hectares, and 65 138 hectares. Based on LQ result and its combination with land availability allocation, Raman Utara is the largest district for paddy field followed by Labuhan Maringgai and Pasir Sakti. For cassava, Sukadana is the main district, followed by Labuhan Ratu, and Marga Tiga. The largest potential for maize is Sekampung Udik, then Marga Sekampung and Waway Karya.
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Judul: Arahan pengembangan kawasan usaha agro terpadu berbasis komoditas kelapa di Kabupaten Lampung Barat
Abstrak: West Lampung Regency has a great potency in agricultural sector. The dominant commodities which developed by the people were: coffee, pepper, clove, oil palm and coconut. The value added of whole products are very low because there are no agroindustries. So that the regency government will build the integrated agribusiness area development based on coconut commodity. The pusposes of the research were: 1) to identify the potential location, 2)to identify the prospective products, 3)to identify the public opinion, 4) to identify the prospect of market and 5) arrange the direction of development. The research was conducted in coastal district of West Lampung Regency on January-Marh 2008. This study used Scalogram, LQ, Land suitability Analysis. The results of those analysis were overlaid to find the alternative location. The choosing of prospective products using Analytical Hierrarchy Process (AHP) with expert respondent on coconut agoindustry. Chain of marketing, Industrial Tree, and Trend Analysis were used to describe the market prospect of coconut products. The result showed that there are 3 potential locations, group of villages Biha, Marang, Sumber Agung, and Negeri Ratu Ngambur, group of villages Way Redak, Kampung Jawa, Pasar Krui, Seray, and Walur, and The Third alternative : group of villages Pardasuka, Pagar Bukit dan Sukanegara. Coconut Oil and Dessicated Coconut were the first and second prospective products. Another prospective produtcs were Carbon Active Coco Milk and Coir Fiber. There are 3 level of collecting traders from village, district until sending trader, and the sending trader enjoyed the biggest profit. Projection trend showed, that export tend to increase. Public perception (farmers and traders) showed that farmers in district of Bengkunat, Pesisir Selatan, Pesisir Tengah and Karya Penggawa know better about (Kawasan Usaha Agro Terpadu ) KUAT program than Pesisir Utara and Lemong district. It was caused by the distant of location and the infrastructure. The direction of development based on 3 alternative location, choosen product which requires tight quality handled by KUAT Management, on the other hand the side products are handled by farmers/group of farmer. All the activities are designed in a cluster which including many stakeholders participation.
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Judul: Infeksi Virus Parainfluenza Pada Anjing
Abstrak: Virus parainfluenza anjing termasuk famili Paramyxoviridae, berbentuk pleomorf dengan ukuran bervariasi (bergaris tengah antara 100-500 nm), berpembungkus peka ether, berisi genom RNA dan secara serologis mempunyai kesamaan dengan virus SV-5 kera; dikenak sebagai salah satu kausa penting dari sindrom "kennel cough". Infeksinya dapat mengenai anjing semua umur yang belum pernah terinfeksi atau mendapatkan vaksinasi mengakibatkan gejala klinis ringan yang terbatas pada traktus respirasi atu infeksi yang secara klinis tidak memperlihatkan gejala nyata. Gejala klinis yang nampak setelah masa inkubasi (1-5 hari) terlewati berupa batuk yang tidak berat selama beberapa hari, berbagai tingkat tonsilitis dan pharyngitis dan kadang-kadang ditemukan kenaikan temperatur rektal antara 1-2 derajat C dari temperatur normal rat-rata. Anjing terinfeksi mengandung virus pada traktus respirasi bagian atas dan bawah serta limfonoduli sampai hari ke 9 setelah infeksi. Penyebaran virus antar anjing terjadi secara aerogen.
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