The design of performance measurements has changed over the past few decades. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) should be the vital navigation instruments used by managers and leaders to understand whether they are on course to success or not. The right set of KPIs will shine light on performance and highlight areas that need attention. This research objective was to design key performance indi…
A relatively small number of large industrial enterprises and major exporting companies has a dominant position in the market and determines the corresponding demand for transport services. Logistics activity in the country is one of the growth points of the economic system. One of the ways for increasing the efficiency of logistics activities in agriculture and food transport management sector…
It is well known nowadays that morphological type classification of spermatozoa is an important component of the modern semen evaluation. Meanwhile, current methods of analysis are subjective and highly diversified; they are also ones of the best tools for artificial insemination using cryogenic preserved semen for the contemporary livestock producer. The aim of the present study was to determi…
Indonesia is one of countries that has mega-biodiversity and has some potency on spices and herbs. Some of them have natural volatile oils or other components that influence on flavor and taste of some drinks and foods. This research was aimed to explore the possibility of some indigenous spices (ginger, lemongrass, kaffir lime and jasmine), which were extracted then added as flavoring agent…
This study evaluated factors influencing banana farmer’s adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) in the uplands of Quang Tri province, Vietnam. Stratified sample technique was used to randomly select 300 respondents from two upland districts of the province with an aid of the structured questionnaire. The study found 65% of the SAPs were not adopted or adopted in a low rate; whe…
Structured lipid is triglycerides composed of medium chain saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids. Coconut oil contains adequate amounts of medium chain and unsaturated fatty acids. The objective of this research is to evaluate a new method of producing structured lipid directly from coconut oil through directed interesterification in a solvent at three successively decreasing temper…
Deficit irrigation is a common practice to cope with limited water availability. A two-year field experiment was conducted in order to determine the water status of cotton crop (Gossypium hirsutum L.) under full and deficit irrigation conditions. The experiment was set up as a split plot design with four replicates, two main plots (irrigation treatments) and two sub plots (cotton cultivars). …
Poultry is the highest consumed meat nowadays. There are some problems in poultry supply chain in XYZ slaughtering house. In addition to supply chain problem, people always need to consume poultry, not only from quality but also from halal status on it. SCOR is a method of assessing supply chain performance created by Supply Chain Council from two perspectives those are internal business proces…
DNA isolation represents the basic and probably the most important step in molecular biology for microbial strains, and even more, for microbial community analyses. Despite the development of molecular protocols for DNA microbial community isolation, there are still many drawbacks dependent of samples composition, and even the commercially available genomic isolation kits have significant lim…
Trichinella spp. is one of the most widespread parasite infecting humans, mammals, and birds all over the world. Despite of the efforts made by public health specialists to control and eradicate it, trichinellosis is considered a re-emerging zoonosis in many areas. Romania is recognized as one of the countries with the highest prevalence of trichinellosis in Europe. With respect to Trichinellai…
As a bio-fuel, the bio pellet is popular as an alternative for replacing firewood for cooking. The potential of bio pellet as a bio-fuel produced from cassava skin becomes the focus of this study. The purpose is to determine the process and composition of bio pellet based on mass balance. The material was collected from several fermented cassava industries located in Jember Regency and Yogya…
Geographical studies on characteristics and diversity of the landscape in the Balkans have frequently referred to the portrayals by travelers from different countries, who, due to their work as diplomats and officials or simply as a result of their curiosity, visited various areas of Balkan. Putting the Balkans’ in the attention of Europe, through its recognition and recovery, both in the XIX…
Total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN) are the most important components of sediments and soils as they can be used to distinguish marine and terrestrial sources of organic matter, environmental depositional conditions, pollution indices and soil quality and productivity indicators. In this paper we present datasets of measurements of TOC and TN in sediments applying high temperatur…
Marine biofouling is a natural phenomenon representing one of the greatest problems in marine technology (navigation,aquaculture nets, etc). To circumvent these problems, antifouling paints or coatings, i.e. matrices containing biocidal species, are used to protect the submerged surfaces and objects. Polymers containing quaternary phosphonium or quaternary ammonium groups are promising biocidal…
This paper aims to investigate the profit inefficiency among hybrid rice farmers in Central Vietnam using stochastic frontier analysis method with a stochastic translog normalized profit frontier function. The results showed that the average profit efficiency was 0.63, implying 0.37 was profit inefficiency. The research found that age, education, irrigation, share of rice income, share of hybri…
Internal (the consumer itself) and external factors influence the consumer to buy a product. It is these factors that can affect the length of time the consumer to buy a product. Time-to-event data analysis is the method to analyze the data when the response of interest is the time until some event occurs. The data to be analyzed is in the form of time, also called failure time or survival time…
In this study we focused on the investigation of the cardiovascular system in swine by means of angiocardiographies utilizing Iopamiro 300 as contrast agent. Our choice of subject is due to the correlation between human species and swine, knowing that the latter was and continues to be an experimental model for various studies performed both in veterinary and in human medicine. The research was…
Small and medium enterprise (SME) needs to apply effective scheduling in order to meet the demand schedule. This is done traditionally, though, it is necessary to allocate production resources to produce product variety such as bread. The fact shows that the order fulfillment is often delayed because of incorrect scheduling. This problem can be solved by making production scheduling that have a…
This study aimed to identify and mitigate risks in tobacco supply chain in Temanggung Regency, Central Java Province,Indonesia, based on risk management principles in ISO 31000: 2009. The mitigation plan was composed by using tool of analytical network process (ANP). The results showed that the risk that were classified as avoidance risk at farmer level are weather, capital access, the price an…
Agroindustry is one of the sectors which provides a big support to national economy. However, the added value given by this sector is still low, particularly for processed products, most of the products exported by this sector are raw materials. Agroindustry sector in Indonesia is generally dominated by Small Medium Industries (SMIs) that still have to face various limitations in order to give …
Solar energy is one of the free and clean sources of energy supply without any destructive influence on the environment. Solar energy has been used in different forms for a long time. Concentrators of solar radiation can be used to produce unlimited, clean and free energy and save fossil fuels considerably. One of important applications of solar energy is to manufacture solar wood drying uni…
Greening material is a plant which is installed in buildings using a panel to reduce the impact of the environmental deterioration. In this research, we used a moss plant (Sphagnum sp) as a greening material. In 2014, we are ready to apply the prototype as a greening material product in Merapi Disaster Prone Area as pre-commercialization phase. The purpose of this research was to pursue the fin…
In the Mediterranean area the solar heat gain in buildings needs to be controlled during the warm seasons in order to keep the internal temperature at comfortable levels and to mitigate the phenomenon of urban warming, known as Urban Heat Island. This phenomenon contributes to increase the outdoor pollutants concentration and the energy demand for air conditioning. Indoor microclimate condition…
A prototype of radio frequency (RF) heating system of 27 MHz was developed to control rice weevil contamination in milled rice. The insects at all growth stages were completely eliminated at temperature of 50 and 55 ºC in all times of exposure. In addition, the heating treatment decreased significantly grain moisture content. Rice Physical quality: the color of treated rice at 50 ºC for 0 and…
The communities in the highland environments are food insecure, depriving of land ownership, and less accessible to infrastructures and services. The present study aimed to understand how the highland communities perceived and defined their food security, and to develop community food security assessment. Two upland villages and three highland villagers in the Chiang Mai province, northern Tha…
Citrus reticulate Blanco is most common among Citrus fruits grown in India. It occupies nearly 40% of the total area under Citrus cultivation in India. Citrus industry in India is the third largest fruit industry of the ranking ninth among top orange producing countries contributing 3% of the world’s total orange production of the world. Vidarbha region from the Maharashtra state of India is …
Countries around the world are facing increasing problems related to rapid resource depletion, especially due to a reduction in highland agricultural area which affects the country’s economy, society and the environment.The farmers feel pressurized to move away from traditional methods of food production in order to improve their economic well-being by switching to mono-crops with high retai…
The paper aims to show the value in-depth case studies in determining resource allocation. This paper seeks to address the following question: How can the optimal quantity of chemicals be determined so as to lead to higher production and profit? In order to answer this question, a piece of research was carried out on the statistics of production functions. The objectives of this research are…
This paper highlighted a daily worker evaluation model for small medium-scale food production system. The model consist of worker capacity assessment and worker performance evaluation sub-models. The model measures the relationship between Total Mood Disturbance (TMD), heart rate of worker and workplace parameters using Kansei Engineering approach. However, the rapid measurement of TMD is diffi…
The study aims to explore farmers’ practice and constraints in organic vegetable farming as well as to identify farmers’ perception and their adaptability to move to or improve their organic vegetable farming. It also helps to select and determine factors influencing farmers’ perception and adaptation to uptake organic vegetable farming and to investigate if this in turn supports sustaina…
The radio frequency (RF) heat treatment had effect to the enzymes activities. On treating temperature over 80
With a climate similar to southern Italy and Greece the Murray-Darling River Basin extends over more than a million square kilometers in the south-east corner of Australia. It contains most of the country’s irrigation and has been at the center of the national debate about water management reform for more than three decades. One of the most controversial issues has been the introduction of a …
The environmental uncertainty of business plays an important role for the implementation of supply chain management. Sustainability of operation process is strongly influenced by the continuity supply of raw materials and parts, as well as the production process used. Indonesian pharmaceutical industry is one industry that is full of a lot of interest because it is directly related to the publ…
Whole blood transfusion therapy was performed on a group of 27 canine patients. Hematological tests were performed in potential donors and patients, with an automatic analyzer and through Dia Qiuck stained blood smears. Transfusion compatibility was established through 16 blood typing tests, using the tube agglutination test (SHIGETA kits), as well as CARD and ALVEDIA tests (DEA 1.1 kits) an…
The aim of this research was to produce high reduction sugar component of bioethanol fermentation substrate using E. cottonii seaweed. The dried E. cottonii was taken from Buton district, South East Sulawesi. The seaweed was hydrolyzed using cellulose for 24 hours with various enzyme concentrations (19, 36, and 52 AU) and temperatures (40 and 50 °C). The reduction sugar was analyzed by Nelson-…
The Royal Thai government promoted a school milk project in 1992 due to the low milk consumption rate in the Thai population. It encourages primary school students to drink milk. Hence, domestic farmers, collectors and milk plants have served milk to schools and through other channels for decades. This research studied a pasteurised milk supply chain, which is a medium-sized collection centre i…
The purposes of this study are to explain the conditions of supply chain for organic rice product and to determine the supply chain risk order organic rice products in MUTOS Seloliman. Risk measurement is performed using fuzzy FMEA method then the risk priority level is obtained. The supply chain structure of organic rice product consist of farmers as suppliers, MUTOS as manufacturer, PT Herbal…
The objectives were to assess vulnerability context of the Karen community and to enhance community-based natural resource management in relation to agricultural systems and food security. We facilitated key informant and focus group discussions, and conducted household interviews. In the study area of Mae Khanad watershed, the Karen’s traditional rice based farming livelihoods were threate…
Cracker industry is one of thriving small-medium food industries in Yogyakarta Special Province. The cracker processing plant produces wastewater that potentially contaminates the environment. Wastewater coming from the washing of production equipments has the BOD and COD concentration that exceed the treshold of quality standard due to it containing high organic matter. This paper proposes a c…
Formerly, “Othok-othok” bamboo traditional toy and alarm clock have high sales, but as the impact of modern product development, both of the sales was decrease.. The innovation of alarm clock that made from bamboo as the source of sound is the one alternative solution of a declining both product. Kansei Engineering method was used to convert the feeling and the imagination of customers int…
Small and Medium Enterprises have a central role for national economic. Unfortunately, it still has a domain of low productivity,as well as for SMEs on food products. This study is aimed to identify the factors that influence performance in correspond to increase the productivity of SME on food products. The analysis is based on a fuzzy DEMATEL and ANP as a hybrid MCDM. The objects are SMEs on …
Irrigation is a crucial practice that operators often perform empirically, relying on their own experience, especially in productive areas characterized by low technology agriculture (i.e. several parts of Mediterranean countries). One of the possible approach for proper irrigation scheduling is measuring the soil water potential, simple and easy to manage. The purpose of this research was to e…
Chrysanthemum is an important cut flower grown widely in Cameron Highland, Malaysia. The chrysanthemum growers encountered soil-born diseases, nematodes and accumulation of salinity when production in the same area was practiced continuously. Soilless culture was a cultivation technique independent from soil condition. The purpose of this research was to determine the growth of chrysanthemum g…
Harvesting practices in most coffee farms in Indonesia, due to some reasons, have resulted not only red coffee cherries but also green, yellow and deep red cherries. This is suspected to be the cause of low quality coffee beans encountered by traders. This research aimed to characterize some engineering properties of coffee beans produced from wet process in respect to different colors of co…
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the stability during storage period of collagenase obtained when culturing Bacillus licheniformis ATCC 14580 and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens isolated from soil, in a basal salt medium supplemented with 0.3% sucrose and 0.6% sheep fur meal. The obtained enzyme was lyophilized and used for further trials. Enzyme solutions (0.5 g/ml) were prepared using …
Ibu Popon is an Agro-industrial based small and medium-scale enterprises in Majalengka West-Java Indonesia. This enterprise began to be assisted by Unpad for seven years since its establishment in 2007 and initially built as supporting unit of a Pesantren (Islamic Boarding School) and was not projected as a professionally conducted commercial enterprise. Since conducting the assistance process,…
Nematodes belonging to the group of equine strongyles have a huge impact on equine health. Studies in horse establishments worldwide have shown a tremendous occurrence of these parasites under largely different geographic and climatic conditions. Accordingly, decades of strongyle control have been based on regular and frequent preventive treatments with anthelmintics and,subsequently, this has …
The results from tests for the presence of cellulose in the agricultural biomass waste for selected quality traits of pellets produced were presented. Selected test raw materials revealed the average cellulose content determined by Kürschner-Hanak method in the range from less than 32% (buckwheat straw) to less than 43% (rye straw). There was negative linear relationship between the cellulose …
As per January - August 2013, the Government of Indonesia (GOA) has regulated a quota-based import restriction policy for importing shallot. This policy has produced an effect to the shallot price that rose significantly in spite inflation occurred. In order to control the inflation rate, on 2 September 2013 the government changed the import restriction policy, from quota based into price refer…
Nata de coco is coconut water fermented foods by the bacteria Acetobacter xylinum. In general, the production of nata de coco is done by direct inoculation into liquid medium. Immobilization of cells is a technique used to trap the cells into a matrix. The use of immobilized cells for the production of nata de coco is one alternative to the product resulted in a cell-free nata. This study used …