One of the alternatives to mitigate  the limitations of agricultural land in urban areas in an effort to produce family food is the use of yard with verticulture method. However, the partners of this community service activity were housewives in Permata Griya RT Residence 03/RW 019; most of them have not utilized their home yard for any productive and economically valuable activities through plant cultivation. This is caused by the limited land and partners’ knowledge about plant cultivation techniques. This community service activity aims to provide training and practice of narrow land utilization with verticulture method, arranging plants vertically using used tins and plastic bottles.. The service activity was conducted through lecture, discussion, and demonstration approach. The result of the activity impacted on the participants’ knowledge and insight: all participants knew cultivation techniques and make the growing media of verticulture mainly by using used goods

Acceleration of innovation adoption can be done if the communication network patterns in farmer groups are known. The research was conducted at The Citrus Production Center in Sambas District, West Kalimantan. Farmer group samples were taken 15 groups randomly while farmer sampling was done with the Representative Sample of Intact System. The structure and role of farmers in communication networks were analyzed by communication network analysis from Rogers and Kincaid and relationship analysis with Rank Spearman method. The results showed the structure of communication, in terms of the level of connectedness of farmers in the group was low while the openness of farmer groups was high. The higher the involvement and openness of farmers in the communication network, the better behavior of farmers in marketing. In addition, the pattern of communication networks that are formed is the pattern of wheels, namely the role of leaders in groups (star) plays an important role in the distribution of information in farmer groups. The other results were efforts to overcome the marketing problems that occur in farmers, namely by delaying the harvest and delay selling.

The objective of this study was to make strategies for the orchard Agro-tourism development of Edupark RJ-3. The study was conducted in Rasau Jaya Tiga, Kubu Raya. This study was necessary to develop agro-tourism and to create exciting tourism objects. The data were analyzed with SWOT analysis. The data were collected through interviews and field surveys. The samples were determined using Snowball; an approach used to identify key informants who have much information. The first contact helped to find other respondents through recommendations. The results showed that the orchard agro-tourism development was at quadrant I, which means the management needed to utilize their whole power to seize and use the opportunities (Growth Oriented Strategy). Some other possible strategies were: 1) to develop a good tourism concept; 2) to improve the service quality for pre-visit, on visit, and post-visit; 3) to manage the relationship with customers; 4) to improve the outdoor infrastructure; 5) to penetrate the market to increase the number of visitors, and 6) to improve the management systems and services for staying competitive. It was recommended that the management of Edupark RJ-3 make the development based on the result of this study.

This research aimed to investigate the best redevelopment strategy of Sambas Orange. The fruit was the icon of Sambas Regency. The damaged Sambas orange plants were caused by some factors such as its trade system. There are many farmers who are growing the orange. They are expecting that the fruit become the icon of the place so that it can increase their welfare. This research was conducted in 2018 in Tebas District, Sambas Regency, the center of Siam orange plantation. The sampling was through two stages. The first stage was determining the sample of village through purposive sampling; Segarau Parit was chosen for its large area and high production number. The second stage was determining the sample of farmers through random sampling. SWOT analysis was implemented. The result of research revealed that the required strategy was aggressive Growth-Oriented Strategy.

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