Introducing Glyricidea Into Goat Food Crops Mixed Farming in The Upland Areas

Abstract

Glyricidea, legume trees (Glyricidea  maculata), were introduced into food crop-goat
mixed famiing practiced by 20 farmers of Boyolali and Grobogan upland areas. In Trial 1, farmers were planting a combination of com and peanut fertilized by either l) glyricidea, cut and carried from land terraces (Treatment I), 2) goat manure (Treatment II), and 3) urea and tri superphosphate (Treatment III). Partial budgeting showed that the use of glyricidea as a fertilizer gave added values due to
higher production of food crops and lower costs of fertilizer (Treatment l vs Treatment ll and III). In Trial 2, raising docs with supplementation of glyricidea to the ration failed to increase does performance. However, it affected the daily gain of the kids (P<0.05). The goats were still kept by farmers and monitored to evaluate if raising goat with glyricidca-food crops farming could alcviate poverty.