Barriers to and opportunities for the use of forage tree legumes in smallholder cattle fattening systems in Eastern Indonesia

Hau, Debora Kana; Panjaitan, Tanda; Nulik, Jacob; Dahlanuddin,; Fliert, Elske van de

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“…While land resource availability is unlikely to constrain this level of production in Sumbawa there are a number of reasons why a burgeoning feedlot sector might face difficulties in securing all of the island’s male feeder stock over this time frame. Some of these constraints, based on feedback from a number of project sites across Indonesia in which leucaena-based feeding interventions have been introduced, are summarised in [ 28 ]. They found that some farmers prefer open grazing to cut-and-carry feeding, because of difficulties in meeting the much higher additional labour requirements of the latter system.…”

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Assessing the sustainable development and intensification potential of beef cattle production in Sumbawa, Indonesia, using a system dynamics approach

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The intensification of beef cattle production in dryland areas of East Indonesia has the potential to substantially raise the incomes of smallholder farmers that dominate the sector. In this study we assess the potential for intensifying beef production on Sumbawa Island, by introducing a household feedlot production system (2–20 animals) based on the Leucaena leucocephala (leucanea) tree legume as an improved source of feed. We used a system dynamics approach to model the entire value chain, accounting for herd dynamics, demand dynamics and seasonality. Our findings complement the growing body of biophysical evidence about the potential success of this intervention, by simulating improvements in the annual profitability for beef farmers in the project area of up to 415% by 2023. Increases in farm profit were shown to depend near equally on the higher productivity of the leucaena feeding system and an associated price premium, demonstrating the importance of supporting improved agricultural production with better marketing practices. The intervention was also shown to generate positive or neutral benefits for the main post-farm value chain actors. Importantly, it also reduced the GHG emission intensity of outputs from the beef herd by 16% by 2020. We explored number of scale-out pathways, including a relatively moderate pace of autonomous adoption for our main analysis, resulting in the accumulation of 3,444 hectares of leucaena 20-years after the initial project phase, which could sustain the fattening of 37,124 male cattle per year. More ambitious rates of scale-out were found to be possible without exceeding the animal and land resources of the island.

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“…In concurrent controlled animal trials, Dahlanuddin et al (2014) studied the growth rate of Bali bulls and lactating cows fed leucaena hay compared with native or introduced grass, and the effect of supplementing with maize grain, maize stover and mineral mix.…”

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“…3. Based on more than 3 years of monitoring ( Figure 3) daily liveweight gains of Bali bulls ranged from 0.4 to 0.6 kg/d (Dahlanuddin et al 2014;Panjaitan et al 2014) on these rations. This was at least double the ADG of Bali bulls (0.2 kg/d) achieved in the traditional rearing system.…”

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“…In controlled animal trials, Dahlanuddin et al (2014) reported that the growth rate of Bali bulls fed 100% leucaena hay was 0.47 kg/d, more than double the growth rate of Bali bulls fed native grass. When leucaena hay was supplemented with 10 g maize grain (DM)/kg LW, growth rates increased to 0.66 kg/d (Dahlanuddin et al 2018).…”

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“…The barriers to and opportunities for adoption of FTL in Indonesia are now well understood. Our findings were first presented in the paper by Kana Hau et al (2014), and an updated list of barriers and opportunities for adoption was described in the final report to ACIAR on Project LPS/2008/054 (Shelton and the Project Team 2017) under the principal categories: Nature of the innovation; technical constraints; project leadership and staffing; engagement with farmers; socio-economic and agribusiness issues; and Government policy and involvement.…”

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Adoption of leucaena-based feeding systems in Sumbawa, eastern Indonesia and its impact on cattle productivity and farm profitability

Dahlanuddin

Panjaitan

Waldron

et al. 2019

Trop. grassl.-Forrajes trop.

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Keynote paper presented at the International Leucaena Conference, 1‒3 November 2018, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.Leucaena has been fed to cattle by the Balinese community in Sumbawa and West Sumbawa districts on Sumbawa Island since the 1980s. However, prior to 2011, this practice was not adopted by the local Sumbawanese farmers. Since then, a model leucaena-based cattle fattening system was developed in Sumbawa and West Sumbawa districts in a collaborative research project between the Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology (BPTP), University of Mataram and The University of Queensland (UQ) funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), followed by a scaling-out project involving collaboration between the University of Mataram and CSIRO (Applied Research and Innovation Systems in Agriculture - ARISA project) funded by DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) promoting public-private partnerships. Further promotion of leucaena-based fattening systems occurred in Dompu, Sumbawa, through a project with the University of Mataram and Massey University funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). By the end of October 2018, more than 2,500 farmers on Sumbawa Island were practicing leucaena-based cattle fattening. The main drivers of adoption of cattle fattening with leucaena were: (1) The high growth rates achieved (0.4–0.6 kg/d for bulls fed 100% leucaena and 0.66 kg/d when maize grain was added to the leucaena basal diet) compared with 0.16 kg/d for the traditional system, combined with high profitability; (2) the needs of farmers being met in terms of relevance and cultural appropriateness; (3) field extension staff being well trained and mentored, and respected by the farmers; (4) the local government being highly supportive of leucaena-based cattle fattening; and (5) additional benefits being increased dressing percentage and high carcass quality. The rapid increase in the use of leucaena for cattle fattening in eastern Indonesia is expected to have a significant positive impact on household incomes as well as on regional economic growth.

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A successful smallholder cattle fattening project based on leucaena diets in eastern Indonesia

Shelton,

Panjaitan,

Dahlanuddin

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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This paper describes the outcomes of a five-year (2011-2016) partnership project between the Indonesian Government and the Australian Centre for international Agricultural Research. The objective was to promote the use of Leucaena leucocephala for fattening cattle in the Provinces of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) and East Nusa Tenggara (NTT). Detailed biophysical and socio-economic measurements demonstrated that it was possible to double productivity of smallholder cattle by improving their nutrition based on feeding leucaena, thus improving the livelihoods of farming families. The results highlighted an opportunity to similarly enhance productivity of other smallholder cattle enterprises in Indonesia and in other tropical developing countries.

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Barriers to and opportunities for the use of forage tree legumes in smallholder cattle fattening systems in Eastern Indonesia

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Assessing the sustainable development and intensification potential of beef cattle production in Sumbawa, Indonesia, using a system dynamics approach

Assessing the sustainable development and intensification potential of beef cattle production in Sumbawa, Indonesia, using a system dynamics approach

Adoption of leucaena-based feeding systems in Sumbawa, eastern Indonesia and its impact on cattle productivity and farm profitability

A successful smallholder cattle fattening project based on leucaena diets in eastern Indonesia

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