SUMMARYTen Armillaria isolates, collected from various host plants and widespread geographical origins in tropical Africa, were cultivated on orange fragments in the presence of water and two different culture media in order to optimize enzyme and mycelial cord production. Seven enzymes involved in the primary metabolism of nitrogen and carbon (glutamate dehydrogenases, aspartate aminotransferase, malate dehydrogenase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 6-phospbogluconatt dehydrogenase and isocitrate dehydrogenase) were extracted from the mycelial cords and analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Cluster analy.sis based on calculated similarity i-alues derived from isozyme banding patterns separated the isolates into fi\'e groups. Two isolates considered as belonging to A. metlea ssp. africana (an African species closely related to European A. metlea) were present in a clearly separated cluster when compared to the other isolate groups. Two Kenyan isolates, belonging to an as yet unnamed biological species, which w ere characterized by the production of few slow growing mycelial cords, were also found in a separate cluster with slightly greater similarit\' coefficients to the other isolates. The six other isolates, referred to as isolates of A. heimii (a highly variable species with different sexual systems) fell into three sub^clusters of variable homology. The two bomothallic heimii isolates from Tanzania and Malawi, which were \ery closely related, displaying 100 "" isozyme similarity, exhibited a higher degree of similarit>' with the two other homothalhc heimii isolates from Zimbabwe and Congo, than with the two heterothailic unifactorial heimti isolates from Cameroon and Gabon. The value of isozymes in the classification of African Armtllaria spp. is discussed.

<p>Rice for the Poor (Rastra) and Non-Cash Food Assistance (BPNT) Programs are among the policy instruments for poverty alleviation. Rastra, formerly a subsidy policy, was partly transformed into assistance design through BPNT Program since 2017. This study aims to assess effectiveness of Rastra and BPNT in terms of 6R aspects, i.e. Right Target, Right Amount, Right Price, Right Time, Right Quality, and Right Administration. Primary data were collected from sample cities implementing these programs. This study used both quantitative and qualitative approaches. It is necessary to improve target beneficiaries, assistance receiving time, rice quality, and e-warong readiness. As instruments of poverty alleviation, Rastra and BPNT were implemented in an integrated manner based on the surplus and deficit areas. Subsidy design (Rastra) transformation into non-cash food assistance (BPNT) should be implemented gradually. Bulog needs to improve farmers’ rice purchase and to increase government’s rice reserve.</p><p> </p><p>Abstrak</p><p>Program Beras Sejahtera (Rastra) dan Bantuan Pangan Non-Tunai (BPNT) merupakan salah satu instrumen kebijakan penting dalam penanggulangan kemiskinan bagi masyarakat miskin berpenghasilan rendah. Sesuai arahan Presiden RI tentang bantuan sosial dan keuangan inklusif, maka sejak tahun 2017 Rastra yang merupakan kebijakan subsidi sebagian ditransformasi menjadi pola bantuan melalui Program BPNT. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji efektivitas pelaksanaan Rastra dan BPNT (aspek 6T: Tepat Sasaran, Tepat Jumlah, Tepat Harga, Tepat Waktu, Tepat Kualitas, dan Tepat Administrasi) dan merumuskan saran kebijakan perbaikan pelaksanaan Rastra dan BPNT. Cakupan kajian dan data yang digunakan adalah pada tingkat nasional dengan keterwakilan dari masing-masing kota pelaksana program. Metode kajian menggunakan analisis kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Pelaksanaan Rastra dan BPNT dipandang perlu dilakukan perbaikan dari sisi sasaran penerima, waktu penerimaan bantuan, kualitas beras, dan kesiapan e-warong di semua wilayah. Sebagai instrumen penanggulangan kemiskinan, Rastra dan BPNT dilaksanakan secara terpadu dengan mempertimbangkan wilayah surplus dan deficit. Proses transformasi pola subsidi (Rastra) menjadi pola bantuan pangan (BPNT) juga harus dilakukan secara bertahap sesuai kesiapan infrastrukturnya.  Selain itu mengingat kebijakan Rastra dan BPNT sangat terkait dengan peran dan kapasitas Bulog dalam melakukan serapan gabah-beras dari petani dan menjaga stabilisasi harga beras, maka pemerintah perlu meningkatkan Cadangan Beras Pemerintah.</p>

Corn is the second carbohydrate source after rice that has a role in achieving food security, supplying sufficient animal feed, and even lately is used as feedstock for alternative energy (biofuel). The importance of corn in a national food system can be seen from a current government policy that has set a target to achieve corn selfsufficiency within three years or in 2017. To formulate accurate operational policies for achieving corn selfsufficiency, various information are needed, among others are corn farming performance and competitiveness. This study aims to analyze corn farming profitability, competitiveness, and strategy for improving its competitiveness using a Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) approach. Main data used were cost structure of corn farming in planting season of 2011/2012 from Statistics Indonesia. The results showed that corn farming in Indonesia was profitable, with the financial benefits was around Rp 6.7 million/ha with R/C ratio 1.73, and economic profit reached Rp 8.7 million/ha with R/C ratio 1.90. National corn farming also had a strong competitive ability, as indicated by DRCR and PCR values 0.48 and 0.54, respectively. Therefore, corn farming in Indonesia was efficient economically and financially or had comparative and competitive advantages. This information can be used as a guidance in formulation of operational policies to increase corn production in order to fulfill domestic needs or even for export. To boost corn production, besides policies related to increasing efficiency and productivity in production subsystem, the policies should also be directed to improve efficiency and performance in other agribusiness subsystems.

<p>Fertilizer is one of important production factors in food farming to gain high productivity. Efforts to manage procurement, distribution, and proper fertilizer application have been regulated, implemented, and controlled by the government. However, complaints related to fertilizer distribution problems still exist. This study aims to analyze national fertilizer performance, especially fertilizer policy for food sector, fertilizer industry, and farmer dynamics in formulating fertilizer needs and its application; and to formulate fertilizer policy alternatives that can increase fertilizer distribution efficiency and use of budget subsidy. Coverage and data of this study were at national level. Analytical methods of this study were both quantitative and qualitative descriptive approaches. The main finding of this study was a formulation of four policy alternatives pertaining distribution mean of direct fertilizer subsidy delivered to farmers. Implementation of these policy alternatives requires availability of accurate data on rice farmers, agricultural land ownership and use, and food farming system profile nationwide. In the short run, in order to increase distribution efficiency of subsidized fertilizer to farmers, it is recommended that some adjustments to the current fertilizer policy must be done on price of natural gas as raw material for Urea, level of subsidized price of fertilizers paid by farmers, document of definitive plan of fertilizer needs of farmer groups (RDKK), and function of fertilizer supervision commission at regional levels. </p><p> </p><p align="left">Abstrak</p><p>Pupuk merupakan salah satu faktor produksi penting dalam usaha tani pangan untuk memperoleh produktivitas tinggi. Upaya mengelola pengadaan, penyaluran, dan penggunaan pupuk telah diatur, dilaksanakan, dan diawasi pemerintah, namun keluhan terkait dengan permasalahan penyaluran pupuk bersubsidi masih saja terjadi. Pengkajian ini bertujuan untuk menganalis keragaan perpupukan nasional, terutama kebijakan penyaluran pupuk bersubsidi untuk subsektor pangan, industri pupuk nasional, dan dinamika petani dalam penyusunan kebutuhan serta pemanfaatan pupuk; dan merumuskan alternatif kebijakan perpupukan yang dapat meningkatkan efisiensi dalam penyaluran dan anggaran subsidi pupuk. Cakupan kajian dan data yang digunakan adalah pada tingkat nasional. Metode kajian menggunakan analisis kuantitatif dan deskriptif kualitatif. Hasil  utama kajian ini berupa formulasi empat alternatif kebijakan cara penyaluran anggaran subsidi pupuk langsung diberikan kepada petani. Implementasi alernatif kebijakan tersebut mempersyaratkan tersedianya data yang akurat tentang petani padi, penguasaan dan pengusahaan lahan pertanian, dan profil usaha tani pangan secara nasional. Dalam jangka pendek, untuk meningkatkan efisiensi penyaluran pupuk bersubsidi ke petani disarankan dilakukan beberapa penyesuaian atas kebijakan perpupukan saat ini, yaitu harga gas bumi sebagai bahan baku Urea, harga eceran tertinggi pupuk bersubsidi, dokumen rencana definitif kebutuhan kelompok (RDKK), dan fungsi komisi pengawasan pupuk di daerah.</p>

Indonesia is one of the cocoa producing countries, where most of it is exported to foreign countries and the rest is marketed domestically. Indonesia cocoa export performance in the world market certainly opens up many opportunities. It is necessary to optimize the potency and competitiveness of its cocoa if Indonesia would make the cocoa exports as the driving of national economy. The objectives of this paper are to (1) analyze Indonesian cocoa performance in the global market compared to its competitors and (2) analyze the competitiveness and market position of Indonesian cocoa in global market and analyze the potency to develop market in 10 main trading partners. The data analysis methods used are the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Trade Specialization Index (TSI) and Export Product Dynamics (EDP). The result shows that the comparative competitiveness of Indonesian cocoa beans and processed cocoa is lower than that of other producing countries. However, Indonesia still has the potency to develop market for its cocoa products in several countries such as the United States, China, India, Canada, Mexico and Estonia. Some efforts to improve the competitiveness of Indonesian cocoa beans may be through the replanting for estates rejuvenation and the improvement of fermentation to improve the quality of cocoa beans. In addition, to enhance the export performance of cocoa base products in general, it is necessary to also improve the development of downstream line and processing industries.

This study aimed to examine the effect of turmeric and garlic inclusion to fermented Sauropus androgynus-bay leaves (FSBL) containing diet on fat deposition, and chemical composition of broiler meats. Two hundred 15-day-old female broilers were distributed into 5 treatment groups with 4 replications as follows. Control feeds with commercial feed additive (T0); Feeds with 1.25% FSBL (T1); Feed with FSBL plus 1 g turmeric (T2); Feed with FSBL plus 2 g garlic (T3); Feed with FSBL plus 1 g of turmeric and 2 g garlic (T4). It was shown that the fat deposition in the abdomen was significantly affected (P<0.01). Furthermore, the inclusion of turmeric and garlic to FSBL containing diet did not affect fat, protein, moisture and ash contents, but increased arginine, methionine and histidine (P<0.01). The addition of turmeric and/or garlic to the FSBL containing diet significantly influenced lauric acid, myristic acid, linolenic acid, cis-11-eicosenoic acid, cis-4,7,10,13,16,19-docosahexaenoic acid (P<0.05), n-3 fatty acid and n-6/n-3 fatty acid ratio (P<0.01). In conclusion, turmeric plus garlic supplementation improved amino acid profiles and changed fatty acid profiles. The possible interaction should be considered when we formulated feed additive from medicinal plant mixtures

The performance of Indonesian coffee bean export from 1995 to 2004was not satisfactory. This implied that there were problems of the competitiveness of Indonesian coffee bean export. This study was expected to come up withsome views related with the problem. This study was aimed to analyze the competitiveness of Indonesian coffee bean export in international markets. Somepolicy implication would be derived following the conclusions. In addition,this study was aimed to deliver some arguments referring to organic coffee development as an alternative export development. Data used in this study wastime series data ranging from 1995 to 2004 supported with some primary data.The export data were analyzed descriptively and the Revealed ComparativeAdvantage (RCA) Index employed to analyze the competitiveness of Indonesian coffee bean export. The results of the analysis gave some conclusions, asfollows : (1) The export of Indonesian coffee bean was product oriented notmarket oriented. (2) The Indonesian coffee bean export was characterized withlow quality with no premium price, different from that of Vietnam coffee export. (3) Besides quality, the uncompetitive Indonesian coffee export was related to market hegemony by buyers, emerging issue of Ochratoxin A. contamination and high cost economy in export. (4) The competitiveness of Indonesian coffee export was lower than those other countries, such as Columbia,Honduras, Peru, Brazil, and Vietnam. (5) Indonesia still held opportunity todevelop organic coffee for export. Some policy implications emerged from thediscussion were as follows : (1) The Government should facilitate market development through the provisions of market information and export incentives.(2) The Government should develop and applied national standard of coffeebean referring to that of international, as well as, improve processing technology equipments in the farm level for both wet and dry process. (3) Besides improving quality, the improvement of competitiveness should also be carriedout by reducing up to elimination of operational costs before and in exportingports through the provisions of fiscal and monetary incentives (taxes and interest rates). (4) The development of coffee organic started with socializationof some aspects related to standard and implementation of farming, processing and trade. The Government should facilitate producers and exporters oforganic coffee with the provisions of market information and incentives.Key words: Export, coffee beans, competitiveness, organic coffee.

The priority of the Village Fund is for the village development programs and activities. The relatively large value of Village Funds in Indonesia is expected to affect the welfare of village communities and also sustainable. The problem is that not all villages have the same level of development, so the management of village resources cannot be uniformed. The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of the Village Fund, especially for agricultural development. The location of this study included three village typologies in the West Java provinces, DI Yogyakarta, Riau, East Kalimantan, and Gorontalo. There are 166 respondents selected, consisted of (1) policymaking institutions and the service institutions leader; (2) key informants; (3) farmer groups; and (4) extension agents. Data were analyzed by descriptive explanative. The results showed that the Village Fund affected increasing farmers' production and income. The process of transporting production facilities and yields has become easier through the improvement of infrastructure farming and facilities. In the future, Village Funds aside for infrastructure development should be allocated for community economic empowerment, i.e., training in agricultural, livestock, and fisheries skills according to the village's potential, so that it can support sustainable agricultural development in rural areas.