The Motivation of Sheep Farmers in the Villages around the IPB Campus to Improve Livestock Productivity

Abstract

Sheep have a significant role to help the government supply of food from animal protein for Indonesian people protein needs. The problems nowadays in Indonesian sheep farm is deficiency of productive ewes, decreasing in livestock production and low in business competitiveness. Therefore, increasing the sheep productivity is needed by motivating local farmers with their potential area and characteristics of their livestock production system. The present study was aimed to measure the level of a local farmer's motivation and evaluate factors affecting it in Cibanteng and Cikarawang Village Bogor District West Java. The analysis of data was done by descriptive statistical analysis and correlation analysis using Spearman rank test (r_s). The study revealed that the external factor of Cibanteng village which had a relationship with the motivation of farmers was stimulating the production to fulfill the basic needs (score: 0494). While in Cikarawang village the internal factor which had relationship with the motivation of farmers was the level of the business development (score: 0532), and external factor that had relationship was stimulating the production of the basic necessities and social status (score: 0519).