Kajian Kebijakan Pertanian dalam Memenuhi Kebutuhan Dasar Penduduk di NTT

Bagaimana pengaruh kebijakan strategis pemerintah Provinsi NTT terhadap pemenuhan kebutuhan dasar masyarakatnya? Salah satu langkah strategis yang dilaksanakan pemerintah adalah revitalisasi pertanian, perikanan dan kehutanan dalam rangka pengurangan kemiskinan dan penggangguran, peningkatan daya saing ekonomi nasional, menjaga kelestarian sumberdaya pertanian, perikanan dan kehutanan, dengan sasaran utama mewujudkan pertanian tangguh untuk memantapkan ketahanan pangan, peningkatan nilai tambah dan daya saing produk pertanian serta peningkatan kesejahteraan petani. Sektor pertanian merupakan salah satu sektor unggulan di NTT, karena memberikan kontribusi yang besar terhadap PDRB NTT atas dasar harga konstan tahun 2000 sebesar 39,6%, yang terdiri dari kontribusi subsektor tanaman pangan 19,87%, tanaman perkebunan 4,51%, peternakan 11,26%, kehutanan 0,26% dan perikanan 3,73%. Selain itu sebagian besar penduduk NTT masih menggantungkan hidupnya pada sektor pertanian. Pada tahun 2009 terdapat sebanyak 1.675.273 (73,54 %) dari 2.278.031 orang yang bekerja (BPS; 2009). Selain itu sektor pertanian berperanan penting sebagai penyedia pangan bagi masyarakat, penyedia bahan baku bagi industri, merupakan penghasil komoditas ekspor. Kajian hasil penelitian ini akan menunjukan bagaimana pengaruh kebijakan strategis pemerintah terhadap pemenuhan kebutuhan dasar masyarakat NTT

Pengaruh Takaran Pupuk Kandang Sapi terhadap Pertumbuhan dan Hasil Jagung (Zea mays L.) yang Ditumpangsarikan dengan Kedelai (Glysine max (L.) Merril)

This study aims to determine the effect of cow manure dosage on growth and yield of maize that intercropped with several varieties of soybeans. The experiment was conducted in the garden of Agriculture Faculty, Timor University using Factorial Random Block Design with three replications. The first factor is the dosage of cow manure which consists of three levels ie without fertilizer, 30 t / ha, and 40 t / ha. The second factor is soybean varieties consisting of three levels namely Davros, Willis and local. The results showed no interaction effect between dosage of cow manure and soybean varieties to all parameters observed. The dose of cow manure significantly influences the soil temperature of 75 days after planting (DAP), a moisture content of 50 DAP, stem diameter 25 DAP, number of seeds per line, dry weight of 100 seeds, dry weight of seed per plot and harvest index. Soybean varieties significantly affect the number of rows per corncob, the number of seeds per line and the dry weight of seeds per plot. Cow manure 40 t / ha is better dosage and Local varietal soybean is more suitable for intercropping with maize that yields 1.0 t / ha and 0.7 t / ha soybeans. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh takaran pupuk kandang sapi terhadap pertumbuhan dan hasil jagung yang ditumpangsarikan dengan beberapa varietas kedelai. Percobaan lapangan telah dilakukan di Kebun Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Timordengan menggunakan Rancangan Acak Kelompok (RAK) faktorial 3 × 3 diulang dalam 3 blok. Faktor yang diteliti adalah takaran pupuk kandang sapi yang terdiri dari tiga aras yaitu tanpa pupuk, 30 t/ha dan 40 t/ha. Faktor kedua adalah varietas kedelai yang terdiri dari tiga aras yaitu Davros, Willis dan Lokal. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan tidak terjadi pengaruh interaksi antara takaran pupuk kandang sapi dan varietas kedelai terhadap semua parameter yang diamati.Takaran pupuk kandang sapi berpengaruh secara nyata terhadap suhu tanah 75 HST, kadar lengas 50 HST, diameter batang 25 HST, jumlah biji per baris, berat kering 100 biji, berat kering biji per petak dan indeks panen. Varietas kedelai berpengaruh secara nyata terhadap jumlah baris per bulir, jumlah biji per baris dan berat kering biji per petak.Pupuk kandang sapi 40 t/ha merupakan takaran yang lebih baik dan kedelai varietas Lokal lebih cocok untuk ditumpangsarikan dengan jagungpulut dengan hasil jagung 1,0 t/ha dan kedelai 0,7 t/ha.&nbsp

Academic language socialisation in high school writing conferences

This study examines multilingual high school writers’ individual talk with their teachers in two advanced English language development classes to observe how such talk shapes linguistically diverse adolescents’ writing. Addressing adolescent writers’ language socialization through microethnographic discourse analysis, the author argues that teachers’ oral responses during writing conferences can either scaffold or deter students’ socialization into valued ways of using academic language for school writing. She suggests what forms of oral response provide scaffolding and what forms might limit multilingual adolescent learners’ academic literacy. Constructive interactions engaged students in dialogue about their writing, and students included content or phrasing from the interaction in their texts. Unhelpful interactions failed to foster students’ language development in observable ways. Although teachers attempted to scaffold ideas and language, they often did not guide students’ discovery of appropriate forms or points. These interactions represent restrictive academic language socialization: while some students did create academic texts, they learned little about academic language use

Mannitol and the mannitol-specific enzyme IIB subunit activate Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation.

International audienceVibrio cholerae is a halophilic, Gram-negative rod found in marine environments. Strains that produce cholera toxin cause the diarrheal disease cholera. V. cholerae use a highly conserved, multicomponent signal transduction cascade known as the phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system (PTS) to regulate carbohydrate uptake and biofilm formation. Regulation of biofilm formation by the PTS is complex, involving many different regulatory pathways that incorporate distinct PTS components. The PTS consists of the general components enzyme I (EI) and histidine protein (HPr) and carbohydrate-specific enzymes II. Mannitol transport by V. cholerae requires the mannitol-specific EII (EII(Mtl)), which is expressed only in the presence of mannitol. Here we show that mannitol activates V. cholerae biofilm formation and transcription of the vps biofilm matrix exopolysaccharide synthesis genes. This regulation is dependent on mannitol transport. However, we show that, in the absence of mannitol, ectopic expression of the B subunit of EII(Mtl) is sufficient to activate biofilm accumulation. Mannitol, a common compatible solute and osmoprotectant of marine organisms, is a main photosynthetic product of many algae and is secreted by algal mats. We propose that the ability of V. cholerae to respond to environmental mannitol by forming a biofilm may play an important role in habitat selection

The Effect of Cow Manure Dose on Growth and Yield of Maize (Zea Mays L.) That Intercropped with Soybean (Glysine Max (L.) Merril)

This study aims to determine the effect of cow manure dosage on growth and yield of maize that intercropped with several varieties of soybeans. The experiment was conducted in the garden of Agriculture Faculty, Timor University using Factorial Random Block Design with three replications. The first factor is the dosage of cow manure which consists of three levels ie without fertilizer, 30 t / ha, and 40 t / ha. The second factor is soybean varieties consisting of three levels namely Davros, Willis and local. The results showed no interaction effect between dosage of cow manure and soybean varieties to all parameters observed. The dose of cow manure significantly influences the soil temperature of 75 days after planting (DAP), a moisture content of 50 DAP, stem diameter 25 DAP, number of seeds per line, dry weight of 100 seeds, dry weight of seed per plot and harvest index. Soybean varieties significantly affect the number of rows per corncob, the number of seeds per line and the dry weight of seeds per plot. Cow manure 40 t / ha is better dosage and Local varietal soybean is more suitable for intercropping with maize that yields 1.0 t / ha and 0.7 t / ha soybeans. ©2016 published by Savana Cendana

The Effect of Six Different Corrective Feedback Strategies on Iranian English Language Learners’ IELTS Writing Task 2

Scholars have long studied the effect of corrective feedback strategies on the writing ability of language learners, but few have formed designs in which more than three feedback strategies have been used. In this research, the ultimate goal was to discover how International English Language Testing System (IELTS-) candidates could be helped to perform better in the writing component of the test with the feedback they get. To this end, 186 learners attending IELTS preparation classes in three different English language institutes participated in this quasi-experimental study. A one-way ANOVA was run to discover the significant difference among the six groups. The findings proposed that Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ writing ability improved as a result of the employment of writing feedback strategies but that reformulation strategy was the most effective one. Teachers can, thus, benefit from the finding of this research by studying the way they should tackle the learners’ inaccurate productions as far as different writing score band descriptors are concerned