Introduction Materials and Methods

31 Furthermore, the formula product of bread and cheese stick with using the same raw material porridge seaweed for development bread and cheese stick products can be explained such mention at Table 3. Table 3. The average degree of score value bread products Treatment Preferences Colour Texture Taste Bread-1 3.0 3.3 3.1 Bread-2 3.2 3.4 3.2 Bread-3 3.6 3.6 4.2 Source: Tim of Competitive Research, 2012 Based on organoleptic test according to taste and color bread were found that the formula bread-3 reach the highest value from panelist for all variables color, texture and taste. In line with the development product of cheese stick in which the average score values can be seen at Table 4 below. Table 4. The average degree of score value cheese stick Treatment Preferences Colour Texture Taste Cheese stick-1 3.4 4.0 4.0 Cheese stick-2 3 3 3.2 Cheese stick-3 2.8 2.8 3.0 Source: Tim of Competitive Research, 2012 Based on organoleptic test according to color of cheese stick was found that the formula cheese stick-1 reach the highest value from panelist, which use the composition of 250 g porridge of seaweed and 500 g tapioca powder with degree of tasty was maximum 4. On the other hand, the examiner shows the lower value for formula cheese stick-3 of 500 g porridge and 1000 g tapioca powder. 3.2. Income Analysis of Products Development Analysis of income gaining of diversification seaweed final products is to know the opportunity of creating income among the local women through this simple technology. Despite of it, this practicing can be seen as effort for diversification of food and family nutrition [6]. According to the amount of raw material and the prediction price of those best selection formula products candy, bread and cheese stick, the analysis of RC ratio can be done. 32 Table 5. Analyze RC ratio of making the best final products Description Type of the best products Candy-2 Bread-3 Cheese stick-1 Revenue Rp 30.000 90.000 100.000 Total Costs Rp 16.600 32.536 27.000 Net Income 13.400 57.464 73.000 RC-Ratio 1.81 2.77 3.70 Source: Tim of Competitive Research, 2012. Table 5 shows that the highest RC ratio belongs to cheese stick-1 which reach 3.70, and the other hand, the bread-3 reach RC ratio of 2.77. Those can be explained that all development products have potential chance to promote in the skim of commercial production. The RC ratio of candy-2 is about 1.81, it can be said that if someone producing candy-2 with costs of Rp 1000, she or he will get earning of 1.8 times Rp 1000 those were the valuable business opportunities. Furthermore, this study could recommend that the two villages with best carrageenan yield can be settled as nursery as a blue print plan for developing commercial seaweed business.

4. Conclusion and Recommendation

Two important conclusion, they are; firstly the most highly preferences among development products are cheese stick-1, bread-3 and candy-2. Secondly, the result of economic analysis shows that all end product were benefitable due to the value gaining of RC-ratio 1, which cheese stick-1 reached RC ratio of 3.70. It’s recommended that even though, the best preferences value of each product can be developed in commercial scale with providing SOP for small scale enterprise, but it is still needed advance training to produce completely product with interesting packaging through facilitating equipment under supervision of Morowali Regency.

5. References

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