Developing Beef Cattle Industry at Smallholders to Support Beef Self-Sufficiency

Abstract

ABSTRAKLebih dari 90% pasokan daging sapi lokal berasal dari peternakan rakyat yang kurang efisien, sehingga pertumbuhan produksi daging sapi lokal belum dapat memenuhi permintaan nasional. Harga daging sapi impor lebih rendah dibandingkan daging lokal, sehingga di tingkat peternak terjadi penyesuaian harga yang merugikan. Naskah ini mendiskripsikan gagasan yang dapat memformulasikan strategi alternatif untuk membangun industri peternakan sapi potong rakyat. Strategi yang diperlukan untuk membangun industri peternakan sapi potong rakyat, diantaranya adalah (1) Pengadaan fasilitas pasar peternakan guna memudahkan akses untuk mendapatkan sarana produksi; (2) Ketersediaan teknologi yang dapat diterapkan peternak dan memberikan perbaikan kesejahtaraan melalui peningkatan produktivitasnya; (3) Menciptakan pasar produk ternak yang menguntungkan bagi peternak; dan (4) Terbentuknya subsistem lembaga pembiayaan tingkat perdesaan untuk mendanai peningkatan produksi dan produktivitas usaha. Perlu adanya keterkaitan secara bersinergi diantara strategi tersebut disertai dukungan kebijakan pemerintah yang operasional.Kata kunci: Industri, peternakan sapi potong rakyat, kecukupan daging sapi ABSTRACT Developing Beef Cattle Industry at Smallholders to Support Beef Self-SufficiencyMore than 90% of local beef supply derived from smallholder farmers with a relatively slow in growth that could not meet national demand. Price of imported beef was lower than that of the local beef, thus price adjustment in farmers level was not profitable. The purpose of this study is to recommend alternative strategies to develop beef cattle industry under smallholders' farmers condition. Strategies to develop the beef cattle industry are (1) To provide agricultural markets in order to facilitate farmer's access easily to get some production inputs; (2) To facilitate technology that can be applied by farmers to increase cattle productions, hence improving farmers' welfare; (3) To create a profitable market for animal produced by farmers; and (4) To establish subsystem of financing institutions at the village level to finance farmer's cattle business. The inter-relationship among those strategies is needed to harmonize the implementation, supported by operational government policy.

Production Systems And Income Generation From The Smallholder Beef Cattle Farming In Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia

“…As in other areas in Indonesia, in these study areas, cattle are kept in mixed farming systems and serve many objectives such as saving, producing manure, draught power and social and status (Widiati, 2006;Widiati, 2014). Livestock as a living bank, be indicated that farmers would sell their animals at any time to meet their special needs such as school fees, repair homes, and social needs of the community, so the livestock sold has not yet reached the maximum age for profit (Widiati, 2014).…”

“…Livestock as a living bank, be indicated that farmers would sell their animals at any time to meet their special needs such as school fees, repair homes, and social needs of the community, so the livestock sold has not yet reached the maximum age for profit (Widiati, 2014). Breeders have a narrow agricultural land was about 1000 m 2 of flat land so that on the season of tilling, then the cattle used to pull plows.…”

“…However, this program seems to be unsuccessful, since the importation of beef meat has reached to 33.2 % of the total national beef consumption (CBS, 2013;Widiati, 2014). About 95% of beef cattle production is in smallholder farming systems which characterized by less than 5 heads of cattle per household (Widi, 2015) because of lack of capital.…”

Development Strategy of Beef Cattle Business to Increase Farmers' Economic Value in Sukabumi Regency

“…The land used for grazing beef cattle has received permission from the local government, private sector, village and land owners. Beef cattle in Sukabumi Regency contributes to fulfill the demands as well as additional income for the farmers in the Sukabumi Regency and Sukabumi Regency area (Widiati, 2014;BPP Sukabumi Regency, 2019). Therefore, the Sukabumi Regency is considered feasible as as center of beef cattle business due to the potency of its natural and human resources.…”

Development of Cattle farming as a Model For Sustainable Rural Development Goal using Spatial Approach (Case in Southern Parts of Merapi Volcano Slope Sleman Regency of Yogyakarta)

“…However, beef consumption per capita per year of Indonesian people in 2015 was the lowest which was less than 2 kg, compared with China (3.8 kg), Malaysia (4.3 kg), Philippines (3 kg), Thailand (2 kg), and Vietnam (9.8 kg) [Department of Food and Agriculture, 2016]. In addition, in the last five years, imported beef was still accounted of more than 30% [Widiati, 2014]. This was because 95% of cattle in Indonesia were kept by rural people as an integrated farming system that have many constraints [CBS, 2013].…”