Laboratory of Agribusiness

Laboratory of Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture University of Muhammadiyah Malang was inaugurated on 2000 with the main tasks are:

1. As a practice place for students in field practice such as workshop practice and communication of agriculture, agricultural business, marketing, agricultural economics, rural sociology, and others. 
2. To coordinate the practice activity for students of Department of Agribusiness which is held at another laboratory (Computing Lab, Chemistry Lab, Biology Lab, etc)
3. As a research place for lecturers
4. To organize seminar and discussion forum to the students and lecturers.

The practices at Laboratory of Agribusiness are expected can hone the students' ability to combine the theory that they have obtained with the phenomenon that they meet in the field. The practice activities are:

1. Field practice of data collection in the field to be analize and make the conclusion and suggestion that can be used by farmers or the local authority.
2. Field Trip to companies which manage agribusiness.
3. Discussion or seminar on various actual topic in the field of agribusiness.
4. Studies forum and training for students with various interests, for example interest on human empowerment.
5. Computing practie with several programs of stastical analysis, such as SPSS, Microstat, POM, etc.

 

From the practices that have been conducted, it is obtained the following result:

1. Data base of villages in Malang District which covers the data of the village potentioal, agricultural business, workshop on agriculture, production activity, marketing of agricultural products, and sociology condition of the villagers. 
2. The collection of paper as the result of study on development and culture sociology.

As a means of scientific communication for enthusiast / observer / researcher of agribusiness, it is planned that starting from 2002, it would be published periodically a scientific publication "Agribusiness studies" which is the collection of the best paper and abstract of students' thesis. The bulletin is a documentation media as the result of scientific thought of Agribusiness students which is planned that it would be distributed to PTN/PTS that has Department of Agribusiness / Social-Economy of Agriculture.