GERPARI Program through giving capital and fish feeding machine to fish farming farmers in Kelurahan Mas Bridge sub-district, Batang Hari District is expected to provide space to farmers to be able to realize the welfare of farmers In accordance with the National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJMN) III. Therefore, it is necessary to see the success rate by evaluating and reviewing the program using welfare indicators according to the Central Statistic Agency (BPS) 2015. This research aims (1) describing the welfare condition of farmers of the GERPARI Program in the village of Bridge Mas Pemayung District of Batang Hari, and (2) analyzing the impact of the GERPARI Program on changes in welfare conditions Farmers. The research method is a survey method using questionnaires. Number of samples as many as 25 farmer program recipients. Descriptive analysis is used to obtain an overview of the welfare level of farmers of the GERPARI Program in Jembatan Emas Village using welfare indicators according to BPS, 2015. The Wilcoxon test was used to analyse the impact of the GERPARI Program on the welfare of farmers in Jembatan Emas village. The results of the study showed (1) the welfare level of farmer households of GERPARI Program before receiving the low-category program of 88% and medium category as much as 12%, after receiving the welfare level program of farmers Increased to medium category as much as 44% and with high category as much as 56%. The average level of farmer welfare based on revenue indicators, health, education, levels and consumption patterns, and housing and environment before accepting the program belongs to the low category, while the after receive the program, family consumption standards and patterns, as well as residential and environmental prosperity levels belong to the medium category, while family health and education belong to the high category. (2) The assistance of the program of GERPARI that received fish farming farmers in the Kelurahan Mas Bridge Sub-district of Batang Hari District gave a significant change to the improvement of household welfare of farmers.

Abstrack. The study aims to describe the distribution of children's formal education levels to fish farming families, and the perception of fish farming families to the formal education of children, as well as analyze the level of formal education of children of fish farmers in Pudak Village, Kumpeh Ulu District, Muaro Jambi Province. Data analysis uses descriptive methods both qualitatively and quantitatively and multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that the distribution of the level of formal education of fish farmers' children in Pudak Village of Kumpeh Ulu Subdistrict was uneven, the percentage in the lower education category (elementary and junior high) amounted to 48.40%, the moderate education category (SLTA) by 38.71% and the higher education category (D3 and S1) by 12.89%. Farmers perceive that formal education is important for children, through education can expand thinking and knowledge as a provision for children's lives in the future so that they have a decent job and their lives are better than the conditions of their parents. Of the six factors (age of the head of the family, the education of the head of the family, the number of dependents of the head of the family, the income of the head of the family, the distance of the educational facilities, the sex of the child) included in the model, there are two factors that affect the level of formal education of the child in the fish farming family, namely family income and distance of residence with educational facilities. The coefficient of determination of 85.5% which means that both factors as free variables are able to explain the child's formal education level as a non-free variable and 14.5% cannot be explained by the model but is explained by other factors outside the model.Keywords: Formal Education, Children, Fish Farmers

Communities of  “Danau sipin” District in  Jambi City especially housewives were mostly showed various ethnic groups with a different levels of education and have  an autonomy decision in determining their food consumption, especially fish. This study aimed to describe the characteristics, the level of knowledge, attitudes and behavior of housewives toward to the fish consumption, and also to analyze the relationship between both  knowledge and attitudes toward to fish consumption behavior. The Age of housewives ranging from 27 – 55 years with an average age of 38.18 years. The lowest last education level is the SLTP and the highest educated SI, with a majority educated SLTA (38.64%). The type of work is housewives, ASN, entrepreneurial, private employees and honorers, with a majority as housewives (38.64%). The number of family members ranges from 3 to 6 people with an average of 4 people. The results showed that the level of knowledge of housewives gave  75%. as high category while the attitude of fish consumtion  was showed an encouraged category  as 86.36%. Fish consumption behavior showed a good category of 54.54%. There was no relationship between the knowledge and fish consumption behavior. The same case there was also showed  no relationship between attitude and fish consumption behavior. Keywords: Relationships, Knowledge, Attitudes, Fish.

Research was carried out in Pudak Kumpeh Ulu village, Muaro Jambi District. Its  goal was 1). Describing the female's role in the pond's catfish  farming. 2). To Calculate  amount of working duration of  female and male in   catfish   farming in a pond. 3). Analyzing the contributions of female's working duration on  a catfish farming in a ponds. The research method   used a survey method. It also used a primary and secondary data, with cross section data type based on ratio scale measurement. The population were   amount of housewife who did an  fish enlargement of the catfish farming in a pond. There were 33 Samples  that  chosen randomly ones. The descriptive analysis method was used in this research.  The results showed that : 1). The role of female on the catfish farming in the pond  showed high enough category, females were almost completely involved in pond preparation activities (drying ponds, weaning, fertilization and water giving), seed spreading, feeding, pond-  cleaning, and harvesting. 2). The everage  of female's work duration on   the catfish farming in the pond e.g.  31.48 hours/period in the pool preparation activities (pool drying, sowing, fertilization and water giving), 4.12 hours/period in seed spread, 338.18 hours/period for feeding, 30.91 hours/period in  pool-  cleaning, and harvesting for 3.36 hours/period. 3). It was  91.17% contribution of female's work duration on  the catfish farming in the pond  and the remaining as men work duration was 8.83%

Penelitian ini bertujuan : 1).Mendeskripsikan kegiatan Program GERPARI Di Desa Jembatan Mas. 2). Menghitung pendapatan yang diterima petani sebelum dengan setelah adanya program GERPARI dalam usaha budidaya ikan. 3).Menganalisis perbedaan pendapatan yang diterima petani. 4).Menanalisis efisiensi pengelolaan usaha dilihat dari kriteria nilai RC-Ratio. Metode penelitian menggunakan metode survey. Data bersumber dari data primer dan data sekunder. Jenis data cros section dengan skala pengukuran data rasio. Dalam menganalisis data penelitian digunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif-kuantitatif dan interperensi. Analisis kuatitatif digunakan untuk menghitung pendapatan, uji-t dua sampel (sampel paired Test) untuk menghitung perbedaan pendapatan petani sebelum dengan setelah menerima program, RC-Ratio untuk analisis efesiensi usaha. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa 1) Bantuan yang diterima petani budidaya ikan dari program GERPARI adalah berupa kendaraan roda tiga, mesin pakan, gudang pakan dan modal kerja usaha. Luas usaha yang dikelola 2 hektar. Jenis ikan yang dipelihara adalah ikan patin. Lama waktu pemeliharaan 5 bulan. Jumlah benih yang ditebar 400 ekor/unit kolam, rata-rata hasil produksi 1800 kg. Dalam pembuatan pakan mandiri menggunakan bahan dedak, ikan yang sudah afkir, dan bahan alternatif (bukil kelapa, ampas tahu, keong). 2) Rata-rata pendapatan per periode sebelum ada program GERPARI Rp.2.251.364 dan setelah ada program Rp.27.495.000. Adanya program GERPARI dapat menurunkan biaya pakan dan tenaga kerja rata-rata sebesar 27,55%/kolam/periode dan meningkatkan pendapatan rata-rata sebesar 287,54%. 3) Hasil uji statistik menunjukan terdapat perbedaan manfaat ekonomi yang diterima petani sebelum dengan setelah ada program GERPARI dalam usaha budidaya ikan. 4) Nilai RC rasio sebelum ada program GERPARI adalah 1,00 dan setelah ada program GERPARI adalah 1,56.Kata kunci: Usaha Budidaya Ikan, Manfaat Ekonomi, Gerpari