Empowerment of goat farming: Lessons learnt from the development of goat farming group of Peranakan Etawah Gumelar Banyumas (Pegumas)

Abstract

Goats’ contribution to the livelihoods have been reported in many developing countries. In Indonesia, the majority of goats is concentrated on the Island of Java, and 23% of total population located in Central Java with the major breeds are Kacang and Peranakan Etawah (PE)goat. PE goats are dual purposes, besides producing meat they also producing milk as a daily income for the farmer. The purposes of this paper are to focus discussion on the empowerment of goat farming with reference on lessons learnt from the development of goat farming group of Peranakan Etawah Gumelar, Banyumas (Pegumas). This study was conducted at Outreach Pilot Project of Jenderal Soedirman University located at Gumelar Banyumas Regency Central Java. Total population of 920 goats and 32 farmers were involved in this study. Empowering Pegumas Farming Group was implemented in collaboration with the Faculty of Animal Science Development Team Jenderal Soedirman University.