Transmigration Program With Animal Husbandry Model in Indonesia

Abstract

Transmigration program with animal husbandry model is aimed to ensure efficiency of the land potential and natural food in order to raise animal production, truogh the companys or private investment and is directed to meet the requirements
of national animal protein and to boost the non-oil export. It is planned that the transmigrants should become self-supporting animal producers who possess privately owned lands, house, land for food-stuff and for animal food. Each transmigrant family is given 2 Ha of land, consisting of 0.5 Ha of houselot, 0.5Ha of arable land and 1 Ha of animal feeding land. The transmigration sites with animal
husbandry model will be developed trough the cooperation of Public Undertaking (BUMN) or trough private entrepreneurs on a pattern of plasma-nueleus partnership. The role of the nuckcus enterprise in this case is to grand credit for animal feeding input besides technical establishment and marketing. Up to the present, animal component in the transmigrant farming system is only considered
as asuppoiting activity to the mind activities in the existing developed models. Experiences in executing transmigration program show that animal component
of the farming system can significantly increase the transmigrant's income. In Sosa ll transmigration site, North Sumatra, for example, transmigrant's income during the third year of settlement from animal component of the famiing system reached
more than one million rupiah per year.