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Risk preferences of farmers determine to adoption of a technology. This study aims to determine risk preferences of cabbage farmers in Baso Sub-district. Analysis of risk preferences using a model of risk preferences Kumbhakar 2002. Results show that organic cabbage farmers are risk-averse, impacting the slow adoption of organic farming.

ABSTRAK Produk kelapa merupakan komoditas ekspor tradisional Indonesia. Produk kelapa yang menjadi unggulan ekspor adalah kopra dan minyak kelapa. Penentuan harga produk ekspor kelapa yang ditentukan oleh pasar acuan dunia seringkali hanya diketahui oleh beberapa pihak saja. Asimetris informasi pasar yang diterima produsen dapat merugikan para produsen. Informasi pasar yang lancar dapat membantu meningkatkan kesejahteraan produsen dan meningkatkan kecepatan reaksi produsen terhadap perubahan kondisi pasar. Melalui penelitian Integrasi pasar ini diharapkan dapat mengetahui tingkat Integrasi pasar Indonesia dengan pasar acuan dunia. Manfaat dari penelitian ini yaitu dapat dilakukan langkah perbaikan dan antisipasi dalam meningkatkan kelancaran informasi pasar bagi produsen. Pada akhirnya dengan kelancaran informasi pasar yang diperoleh dapat meningkatkan reaksi produsen apabila terjadi perubahan pasar, serta meningkatkan kesejahteraan produsen kelapa. Untuk mengkaji integrasi pasar ini digunakan metode VAR/VECM. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa produk turunan kelapa Indonesia terintegrasi dengan pasar kelapa dunia. Pada pasar Indonesia, integrasi pasar yang terjadi antara pasar kopra Indonesia dan pasar minyak kelapa Indonesia merupakan integrasi pasar yang searah karena hanya harga minyak kelapa yang berpengaruh signifikan terhadap harga kopra Indonesia, dan tidak sebaliknya.

Competitiveness is the critical factor to withstand in global markets. The commodity without competitiveness will defeat by other products with high competitiveness. Indonesian fruits and derivatives must have competitiveness to hold on in global markets. This research aims to measure competitiveness and analyze export performance through tropical fruits and derivatives. Normalize Revealed Comparative Advantage (NRCA), and Export Product Dynamics (EPD) are used in this research to analyze competitiveness and export performance. This research also used a time series of data to analyze tropical fruits competitiveness and export performance. The result shows that Indonesia is strongly competitive in mango, mangosteen, and guava in China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Bananas have strong competitiveness in Malaysia and Singapore, while rambutan, snakefruit and tamarind have weak competitiveness in the five destination countries compared to competing countries. Competitiveness advantages through the EPD calculation shows that the position of Indonesia's tropical fruit exports is in the Falling Star and Retreat position.

Food supply chain scarcity comes to the pinch and coerces us to make any food diversification for food security's sake. The eggs are one of the commodities to keep secure. Otherwise, the fish odor of duck egg often become caused by people less interest to consume duck egg. Instead, it has a higher nutrient composition than chicken as well. One of the alternate ways is Jintan leaf (Plectranthus amboinicus). Jintan leaf has the potency to eliminate odor sensory toward duck egg due to its bioflavonoid, phenol, volatile compound. This substance hypnotized could decrease and eliminate odor levels in duck egg. The research was carried out to know the most proper jintan leaf concentrations to eliminate salty duck egg odor. It used an explorative experimental method by Complete Block Design with three replication and continued by orthogonal contrast test to know which component is more prefer according to consumers. The odor of salty duck eggs decreased and began to decrease even at the 25-gram concentrate. Within the higher concentration, the higher decrease in odor sensory. For the economic aspect, we are not necessary to close in the highest concentration, but we suggest at the early odor sensory is disappeared, by 50 grams for 40 salty duck eggs. There is the other advance to further research, such as prolonging quality. This finding would be beneficial to producer and consumer and also researcher as the new variance of product.