Ecotourism activities have been expanding rapidly over the past two decades worldwide and further growth is expected in the future. Efforts to better understand ecotourism, as well as to improve its planning, management and marketing techniques have been conducted by many ecotourism companies and practitioners, governments and research people throughout the world. This paper is specifically concerned with the effort of the local government of Jambi to take the optimally benefit from natural tourism development more competitive. Tour de JNP (tour the Jambi National Park) is an international annual event of territorial water challenge sport-tourism to tracing river stream between Kerinci Seblat and Berbak National Park. Both national parks represent conservations area owning properties of natural tourism object which offer biodiversities. During tracing streams of Batanghari River, all participants can enjoy the esthetics value of the natural were a view of nature, air freshness and see various history and settlement of traditional cultural society. Pursuant to stream type and deepness of river which vary, hence the setting of championship using boat type different to each phase, and will be divided on 10 phases. Entire phase will be gone through by participant by using boat type differ that is rubber boat, traditional boat of Jambi (Bidar and Kajang Lako), dragon boat, bamboo raft, and sailboat for sea and river. During race of participant will pass some tourism object were Kerinci Lake, Geo-Park, Victoria Brigde, mausoleum of Orang Kayo Hitam, Muaro Jambi Temple, Angso Duo as an eldest traditional market, Tanggo Rajo as a popular man-made tourism object, traditional settlement as long as river, Berhala Island, blackly sand of coastal area, and end in Simpang Malaka a gathering places to drinking wilds animal on the Berbak National Park.

The research objective was to design a collective action model in the context of household independence in overcoming the temporary loss income (TLI) period during the rubber replanting process. The research partner was the Sumber Rezeki Farmer Group (SRFG) in Mestong District, Jambi, Indonesia. The results showed that collective action in integrated waste processing to produce TCI and BA+ can work well but not followed by inter-cropping cultivation implementation. The BA+ prototype technology with capacity 1,100 liters/period more advantages over conventional methods because it only takes 18 days with clearer and loss of pungent odor. The substitution power of food crops was only 49,27% from potential temporary loss income with the highest in food-corn which’s 55.83%. Conversely, the food crops productivity implemented was not targeted as achieved by planting demonstration plot scale. The main inhibiting factor the water availability which is highly dependent on the season, and animal wild pest attacks such as monkeys and wild boar. Based on the results it can be concluded that the collective action model had not been effective at the implementation stage so that further research is needed to address the water management and wild animal pests control problems.

Kegiatan PPM bertujuan untuk pemulihan ekonomi rumah tangga sawit terkena dampak karhutla tahun 2015. Program PPM mampu memantik partisipasi pihak dunia usaha melalui program CSR yaitu PT. WKS berkontribusi dalam perbaikan jalan produksi dan berkomeitmen menyerap seluruh produk kompos, dan Bank Indonesia berkomitmen memberikan bantuan modal perluasan rumah kompos dan perbaikan kandang guna akselerasi target produksi. S esuai perjanjian kerjasama antara PMJ dan PT. WKS pada saat lounching perdana yaitu 200 ton/bulan dari capaian produksi 50-60 ton/bulan saat ini. Pemasok utama bahan baku limbah usaha pupuk kompos adalah rumah tangga peternak sapi setempat dan desa sekitar. Berdasarkan hasil kegiatan maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa program PPM mampu membangkitkan motivasi pemanfaatan limbah insitu, menjadi sumber pendapatan alternatif guna pemulihan ekonomi pasca karlahut, pemicu partisipasi pihak lain serta merupakan langkah awal menuju kesiapan rumah tangga menghadapi program peremajaan sawit.

This strengthening waste-based palm oil-cattle integration groups business program is a continuation of the development program in the 2013. It is intended to accelerate and increase production capacity through process technology improvements. The results of the activity show that the group's integrated waste processing business has developed well according to the installed capacity of Biourine A Plus and In-site Trychocompose (ITC) production. The implementation of activities is broadly in line with the target. The achievement of ITC production has been 56% of installed capacity but seen from the production trend has shown the direction towards actual capacity use. The income of group business has a significant increase that almost double. The constraints faced are mainly caused by fluctuations in the supply of the main raw materials (liquid waste and solid cages) as the cattle population changes. Follow-up efforts are to encourage changes in business orientation into a dual purpose: to maintain the balance of composition between male and female livestock, and expansion of partnerships of raw material input with the aim of non-group cattle farmers.

Citronella (Cymbopogon nardus L) is a kind of plant producing essential oil. The cultivation does not require special requirements, can be grown on less fertile soil, and able to rehabilitate degraded and critical lands. In this study, 5 levels of drying duration (0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 days) were observed for their effect on the yield of citronella oil grown at 3 critical levels of land (quite critical, critical, and very critical). The experiment was designed in a completely randomized block design with 3 replications. The distillation of whole citronella leaves was carried out for 4 hours using steam distillation method. The result showed that the air drying significantly affected the yield of citronella oil. An increase in drying duration decreased the yield of oil in a linear trend. The highest yield of oil was produced from fresh raw material (0 days drying duration). The decrease of the oil yield due to the increase of drying duration at three levels of critical land (quite critical, critical, and very critical) followed the equation Y1 = - 0.024x + 0.711; Y2 = -0.017x + 0.704; and Y3 = -0.012x + 0.704 (for y = yield [%] and x = drying duration [day]).