PROYEK PENGEMBANGAN USAHA PETERNAKAN POLA INTEGRASI

Abstract

It is necessary for the development of the business of animal husbandry to be supported by various production means. One of the means is the availability of fodder. Fiber fodder such as grass, dried rice stalks, sugar cone shoots, cocoa fruit peels and the agricultural by-product of other food crops are the materials that are commonly used as the fodders of ruminant animals. The use of the agribusiness by-products as the raw materials in the industry of fodders represents as challenge and also an opportunity in the optimizing the local resources that has not been made used efficiently and optimally. Using LEISA approach each hectare of agriculture land can produce the fodder for 2-3 beef cattle/ha. In the case the beef cattle serve the function as ‘compost mills’ using the raw materials of the crops ‘wastes’ and finally the compost is used as organic fertilizer for crops. In the attempt to increase the population of the beef cattle with a viable production cost, the approach of integrating the beef cattle into the food crops, plantations and industrial plantation forests is technically, economically and socially feasible to develop. One of the key factors of the success in the integration is that there is not any residual material and the use of an innovation in a right and efficient manner. The implementation of the integrated system of the crops and beef cattle using the approach of low external input result in competitive products of animal husbandry. Therefore, the animal husbandry business with the integrated system of the crops and the beef cattle will be interesting in the future and will have a quite good opportunity.