The low access to finance institution is one of the obstacles faced by beef cattle farmers in the rural area. The cause were the high interest rates, collateral, lack of information, inadequate credit supply, long procedures and a relatively long distance between farmers and finance institution. The existence of Agribusiness Micro finance Institutions in Indonesia is one of the steps taken to overcome the constraints access financing faced by the community in the rural area. The study examined the effect of Agribusiness Micro finance Institution beef cattle farmers in rural areas in South Sulawesi. The study used descriptive research. The convenient sampling procedure was used to select eighty beef cattle farmers. Data were generated through questionnaire and interview, then used descriptive and descriptive statistics analysis. The findings in this study were agrobusiness microfinance institutions increasing access to capital for beef cattle farmers, empowering farmer group members and increasing their involvement in farmer group activities, raising farmers awareness to allocate their savings for farmers group interest. Thus the micro agribusiness microfinance institution has had a positive impact on the economic life of the community farmer in the rural area.
The Covid-19 pandemic has an impact on all sectors of the economy including broiler farming. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on broiler chicken farming in Moncongloe District, Maros Regency. This research was conducted in August - September 2020. The data collection method used literature review, observation and interviews. The broiler chicken farm industry and business owners are feeling the positive and negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. The positive impact is the increasing number of people who open businesses in the food and beverage sector, including those using broiler as raw material. Indirectly, this will increase the demand for broilers on the producer side. The negative impact is that the price of chickens is always fluctuating and a fairly drastic drop in the price of live chickens has caused farmers to suffer losses. The condition of the decrease in the number of sales is also felt by restaurants, hotels and restaurants due to large-scale social restrictions in Makassar City, which are intermediate consumers.
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