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Lahirnya Undang Undang Nomor 6 tahun 2014 tentang Desa menjadi kekuatan dalam mewujudkan pembangunan desa yang bermartabat. Kemartabatan desa nampak dari usaha desa menggerakkan segala sumberdayanya termasuk dalam penguatan di sektor UMKM. Usaha ini terus dilakukan dan diupayakan oleh Desa Gogodeso kecamatan Kanigoro kabupaten Blitar karena sadar akan potensinya yang besar, sayangnya belum dioptimalisasikan. Visi membangun desa yang berubah-ubah menjadi satu penyebabnya. Bersama dengan fasilitasi dari tim pengabdian potensi terpendam itu dioptimalkan dengan cara pertama analisis situasi potensi UMKM melalui pendekatan Participatory Rural Appraisal berbasis Village Driven Development yang berarti mengharuskan keterlibatan aktif seluruh stakeholder desa. Dilanjutkan dengan penyamaan visi-misi melalui Sarasehan Desa Membangun dan terakhir melalui pendampingan dalam pemasaran melalui branding kemasan sebagai bagian dari permasalahan UMKM selama ini. Ketiga langkah ini merupakan bagian dari upaya mewujudkan desa Gogodesa menjadi Dewi UMKM (Desa Wisata berbasis UMKM). Hasilnya secara bertahap masyarakat yang semula ingin membangun desa berbasis berbasis pertanian berubah dan bersepakat membangun Desa berbasis UMKM.

Dominated semi-arid area of East Nusa Tenggara (ENT) is characterized by low and erratic rainfall, poor soil fertility, diverse agro-ecosystem and dominant rocky lands. Crops production within this environment is generally low and uncertain. This paper aims to describe the impacts of Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices in ENT province. The data and information were mainly taken from FAO and IAARD’ CA collaboration research program implemented in ENT during 2014 to 2018. All farmers involved in the programs acknowledge that CA has increased maize productivity and indeed some farmers have able to plant maize twice a year and experienced good harvest even in long drought. Integrated forage into CA based farming in Timor enable farmers to provide enough feed for cattle at least 1 to 2 head/household. Nevertheless, most farmers showed some constraints in implementing and expanding the introduced CA concepts. The main constraint is lack of labor and equipment to make permanent planting hole in dominated rocky land. CA concepts related to permanent cover crops and mulching have not fully implemented due to crops residues mostly used to feed cattle. The complexity of semi-arid environments and indigenous knowledge of local people in managing semi-arid upland agriculture should be taken into consideration in incorporating suitable induced CA.

This study aims to determine the effect of socioeconomic factors (age, age, and income) and factors related to location (cost and distance) of millennial tourists. This type of research is explanations and field surveys with a sample non-probability technique of 150 respondents. The analysis technique uses multiple linear regression. The results showed that the cost of travel, age of income and distance had a positive and significant effect on the number of millennial tourists visiting the attractions of the Sungai Koran Park, Sebangau National Park. The implication of this study is the development of the tourism infrastructure of the Koran River as one of the national tourism destinations to the Province of Central Kalimantan.

Mercury content in ex-artisanal and small-scale gold mining areas in Cianjur District, Province of West Java, Indonesia was 7 to 36 mg L−1. It has exceeded the threshold value for industrial land. Bioremediation of mercury using mercury-resistant bacteria is attractive to remove mercury from the environment because it is more effective and less expensive. The objective of this study was to obtain potential bacteria capable of accumulating mercury to be used to remediate mercury contaminated soils in ex-gold mining areas. Potential bacteria isolates were characterized for their phenotypic and biochemical properties using the Biolog system. Thirty-two mercury-resistant bacteria were successfully isolated from the rhizosphere of Pityrogramma tartarea growing predominantly around tailings of ex-artisanal gold mining. After screening the presence of mercury, the three best isolates showing high resistances are Pseudomonas putida R2.13 and P. maculicola R4.27 that are capable to tolerate 180 mg L−1 mercury, and Enterobacter aerogenes R3.24 that is capable to survive at 170 mg L−1. Furthermore, the three bacteria also can fix atmospheric nitrogen and solubilize phosphate, but they cannot solubilize potassium. These indicate that P. maculicola R4.27, P. putida R2.13, and E. aerogenes R3.24 are potential as bioaccumulation agents on mercury-contaminated soils.