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 …
Improving of student performance is one important focus of college management. Mapping of student’s actual condition is the requirement that must be made before designing the performance improvement program. This paper focus on mapping students using K-mean Cluster algorithm to reveal the hidden pattern and classifying students based on their demographic (gender, origin,GPA, grade of certain …
Sustainability in industry is very important. Hence we proposed a partnership of sustainable model among supply chain three players and proposed 13 goals in the model.We used goal programming to achieve the goals. To illustrate the model, we conducted a numerical trial based on our observations in export oriented wooden furniture industry in Central Java, Indonesia and we gave different weighti…
Punga Fish (Pangasius bocourti Sauvage) is a type of skin fish from the Pangasiidae family. Pangasius is currently highly demanded in the world market. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of slaughter weight on carcass and meat quality of Punga fish. Two hundred and forty Punga fish from a commercial farm were divided into three groups, 80 fish for each group, based on a…
This case study was done to determine the impact of seasonal climate variability on rice production in the Nam Dong District,Central Highland of Vietnam. The Ordinary Least Square method was applied to establish the relationships between climatic factors and rice yields in two different growing seasons. The climatic factors are average maximum temperature (avemaxT),average minimum temperature (…
The Indonesia’s recent economic growth, 2000-2010, was very remarkable considering the fact that during the same period the global economy was generally characterized by stagnant to negative growth. However, such a remarkable growth were being criticized by many as having several weaknesses, covering: (i) Indonesia’s economy is relatively unstable, (ii) growth is centralized in Jakarta only…
This research examines how relationship quality affects the intention of past consumers to spread positive electronic word-ofmouth (e-WOM) in food and beverage bussiness. Studies show that customer commitment tends to behave as mediator on customer satisfaction and trust that correlate to positive e-WOM. Exploration the influence of customer psychographic aspect toward the e-WOM was measured on…
In the context of ensuring bio resources for future generations, scientific research of carp culture have shown that it can realize high meat production, if it respects certain conditions of race performance and the growth medium. The genetic improvement objective is to increase meat production, based on maximizing meat production per female of breeding stock. Estimation of genetic progress usi…
This paper aims to quantify the quantitative performances to the production of meat at Carpathian youth breed in relation to the rearing technology. To assess the development of kids body during birth - 6 months kids were weighing at birth, at 28 days, at weaning (60 days) and 6 months, registering total weight gain and average daily gain achieved by them in stages and throughout the period mon…
After a period of progressive abandonment of cultivation, the wine growers of the Etna initiated a process of renewal that allowed them to place high quality products on the market and to involve in wine tourism with the Etna Wine Route. In this context, the viticulture of the Etna is a model, which has become a strategic component of rural sustainable development and improvement of local touri…
Inventory policy decisions at each tier in the supply chain of fresh vegetables is considered significantly regarding to the short period shelf life (perishable) factor and cost efficiency of the product distribution. The object of this study is suppliers of fresh vegetable and its supply chain in the Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia. The evaluation of the importance factors of supply chain perf…
Grinding is the fundamental operation in the processing of cereal grain. From the viewpoint of the processing technology, the significant aspect is the energy intensity of the process. Apart from the equipment used, the process of grinding is affected by grain moisture and its mechanical properties that are determined primarily by the cultivar factor. The principal objective of the study was th…
The climatic changes from Romania in the last decades, affected the productivity of local plants especially in south of the country where there are many droughty areas. Our objective was to identify new opportunities for protecting the environment in these areas by emphasizing the potential of cultivation of more resistant plants. With these aim in mind we conducted in 2013 two experiments of g…
Using a (DOCA)-salt arterial hypertension rat model we aimed to test on isolated, ischemised and reperfused rat heart, physiological parameters as well as biochemical markers, both in myocardium and in plasma, in order to characterize modifications induced by DOCA-salt treatment. In our study we used 20 rats of 10 months old divided into two groups of 10 rats each: control and treated. The tr…
Genetic determinism study presents a great importance due to the fact that all the characters linked to the growth process depend upon some specific genes action, gene which with their summative effect establishes the phenotypic manifestation of the mentioned characters. To emphasize the genetic determinism of a character it is necessary the estimation of the genetic parameters, the main import…
Semen production quality from reproduction males depends upon different factors such as:age, breed, collection method,environmental conditions. The present research was conducted to establish the influence of age upon the quantitative and qualitative indices of the native buffalo semen. There were analyzed 20 native buffalo males, from different age categories. At every semen collecting there w…
The effect of two levels of electrical conductivity (EC) at 2.2 dS/m-1 and 4.4 dS/m-1 in two nutrient solutions was studied in a hydroponic culture of zucchini Cucurbita pepo var. Abodanza, during the growing period in a heated glasshouse. The experimental premises consisted of 8 double sloping benches (10x 0.4 x 0.6 m), which were by two equipped for the collection of the runoff with a calibra…
The purpose of this paper was to make a study as regards the typology of sheep farms which practicing the conventional breeding system. To characterize the typology of conventional sheep farms a study of the production system was conducted in 2014 in 10 sheep farms, located in the counties Cluj, Caras-Severin, Covasna, Buzau, Prahova and Teleorman. Evaluation of the production system from each …
As an agricultural product, cassava is recognized as a special commodity which has high potential for local and export product. High production cost and low selling price are still become common problem faced by farmers. These common problem leads to low income for the farmers. The opinion to cassava product as unimportance product with low profit has consequence to make low of institution invo…
The purpose of this study is to provide information on the conditions of horticultural products supply chain that is managed by the Cooperative Brenjonk and identifying performance problems that occur from the beginning of the process of organic products to be a viable product to be marketed. This study uses the identification of supply chain performance to determine the performance of each sup…
Maize production in Thailand has moved to the highlands, where residues of crop and weeds are burned to prepare land for the new crop. This study was done to compare relay cropping of maize with legumes to reduce burning in the highlands at Pang-da Royal Agriculture Station. The experiment was conducted with 3 maize-legume relay treatments (maize + lablab, maize + ricebean and maize + cowpea) a…
A total of 375 Nile tilapia was subdivided into three groups (125 fish/group), based on weight (600, 800 and 1200 g, respectively). Fish were killed and analyzed for various traits describing meat characteristics. Data was subjected to analysis of variance. Protein percentage of the 600 g weighing Nile tilapia was the highest (P
This paper attempts to analyze USFDA import refusal report and the export competitiveness of Indonesian crab in the US market. This research employed the RCA method to measure the comparative advantage. The results indicate that Indonesia has the highest total import refusal of crab during 2002 to 2013, with 381 refusal cases, dominantly caused by chloramphenicol (171 cases). The RCA Index calc…
The study aimed at evaluating antibiotic residues in raw milk coming from two categories of providers: dairy farmers and processed milk producers. The analyses were carried out in a private laboratory at the request of the providers. 210 samples,collected monthly during 2012 (January to December) were analyzed (n = 210). Of the 210 samples of raw milk, 45.71% (n = 96)came from dairy farmers and…
Members from different farmer groups that received establishment support by three intervention projects, and non-members were interviewed. By calculating the average weighted scores the influence of intervention projects on potential factors for the success or failure of farmer groups devoted to pig production and marketing was evaluated. Findings showed that farmers assigned reasons for group…
Wastewater that contains high organic material is being produced during cajuput oil production. Appropriate treatments, therefore,are required in order to meet the effluent disposal standard. Coagulation and neutralization as pre-treatments prior to anaerobic filtration were applied to such wastewater sample. The result showed that both pre-treatments were able to reduce the total suspended sol…
Porcine proliferative enteritis (PPE) is an important enteric disease and is widespread in intensive pig production. It is caused by Lawsonia intracellularis, intracellular bacteria which affect more frequently postweaned pigs between 6 and 20 weeks of age. The aim of the study described in this paper was to obtain data on the prevalence of Lawsonia intracellularis infections in Romanian pig he…
Wine is probably one of the main fermented beverages for which the recognition of the “territoriality” is fundamental for its appreciation. The sensory profile of wine is significantly affected by microbial activities, and indigenous microorganisms may significantly contribute to the expression of wine typicality. The microbial ecology of wines is complex and includes several species and s…
Global awareness of halal product is rising. Indonesia is a huge market for halal product, and has just legalized regulation on halal product guarantee. The recent dynamics urge the importance of knowledge of consumer’s behavior on halal product. This study attempted to describe consumer’s behavior, especially on the consumption of chicken-based food that is very popular in Indonesia. The c…
This paper seeks to provide a framework for determining the effect of malt dextrin concentration and drying temperature to antioxidant content of Sinom beverage powder and to determine the effect malt dextrin concentration and drying temperature to the production of Sinom beverage powder which containing best antioxidant content. This study use the split plot design with the factorial consis…
The article aims to present the problems that may arise in the implementation of the cadastral works on stock of wood, works in the extraurban areas, on the political boundaries. Solutions are being looked for as regards the assigned areas that are disintegrated by the boundary between districts, without compromising the law enforcement 165/2013 on the restitution of the abusively confiscated e…
This paper presents a case study on realizing a 3D model of surfaces that will be leveled in order to build a shopping center. In the first phase, devices and methodology adequately used are presented, being adapted specifically to the existing situation on the ground and to the required accuracy for lifting. Results desired in this case study are primarily focused on tracking effectiveness,…
The purpose of the present paper is to identify viable solutions for organising organic producers groups and supply chains at county level. With this purpose in mind, our research aim was to evaluate which is the best networking solution for 40 organic farmers in Calarasi County. This statistical approach was based on multidimensional scaling and hierarchical clustering methods that permitted u…
In the latest years, researchers have been working to reduce the dependence on petroleum based fuels and products due to the increase in environmental consciousness. This leads to investigate the environmentally friendly sustainable materials in order to replace the existing ones. One of these polymeric materials is poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) which is a semi-crystalline, linear polymer belon…
In view of the relatively recent introduction of the chinchilla as an experimental model in human neurological research, there rises a need for a precise knowledge of the anatomy and structure of the different segments composing this species’ encephalon. Our study aimed to enrich the current data pool, by providing a macroscopical and histogical description of the chinchilla’s cerebellum. 1…
Miscanthus giganteus biomass has a very good quality for combustion (similar as a light coal or wood, up to 19.6 MJ/kg dry matter) and has positive ecological impact for marginal land that makes this crop suitable as bioenergy resources for small scale heating systems. The most important technology to make easily available Miscanthus giganteus feedstock on the market is biomass briquetting or p…
The main goal of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is to "encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity" (World Heritage Convention). To date (April 2015), UNESCO World Heritage List consists of 1007 cultural (monuments, group of buildings, sit…
Water is an important factor in the ecological balance. Surface water pollution, due to activities related to the food industry and population growth, is a current problem with serious consequences to human health. Galda River from Alba County, Romania is a medium size river, but strongly affected by the pollution from anthropogenic sources. To restore the ecological balance of this area, the w…
Precise documentation of cultural heritage monuments status is essential for its protection and scientific studies. The digital preservation of cultural heritage monuments is a specially challenging application of 3D modelling. Cultural heritage objects and sites greatly differ from each other and a maximized fidelity of the 3D model is a core requirement. Terrestrial laser scanning is a techno…
Corneal ulcers are the most common ocular disorders encountered in dogs and cats. Melting keratitis is a pathological condition of the cornea that appears when there is an imbalance between proteinases and proteinase inhibitors, components involved in corneal wound healing. Proteolytic enzymes such as collagenases are produced by some bacteria, especially Pseudomonas spp.,fungi (Aspergillus spp…
It was analyzed the behavior of vine varieties with biological resistance in southern climatic conditions of Romania, during 3 years of study. Thus, there were determined: phenology of varieties, fertility and productivity for table varieties and wine varieties, the behavior of these varieties at the attack of the main diseases and phylloxera, physico-mechanical characteristics, the technologic…