Increased of farmer's income through use cassava as main ingredient of beef cattle concentrate feed in Playen Subdistrict, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta



Noor Asrianto(1*), Siti Andarwati(2), Sudi Nurtini(3), A D Putridinanti(4), Gunawan Gunawan(5), Karen Harper(6), Dennis Paul Poppi(7)

(1) Faculty of Animal Science UGM
(2) Faculty of Animal Science UGM
(3) Faculty of Animal Science UGM
(4) Faculty of Animal Science UGM
(5) Yogyakarta Assesment Institute for Agricultural Technology, Yogyakarta 55584, Indonesia
(6) University of Queensland, Australia
(7) University of Queensland, Australia
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


Feeding concentrates to beef cattle is not widely practiced in Indonesia and live
weight gain (LWG) and income from sale of cattle can be low. This study analyzed the increase
of beef cattle farmer's income through the use of cassava as a main ingredient of a concentrate
feed. Fifty Ongole (PO) bulls, aged 12 -18 months, were used in this study. They were divided
randomly into five feed treatments and each treatment consisted of 10 cattle. The control
treatment (T0) was the current feeding system by farmers. Treatment one (T1) used concentrate
supplementation at 1% of live weight (W)/day with composition 50% cassava, 25% copra meal,
25% palm oil cake and treatment 3 (T3) was the same concentrate fed at 2% W/d. Treatments
two (T2) and four (T4) used a concentrate mix of 50% cassava, 25% copra meal, 25% soybean
skin fed at 1%W/d (T2) and 2%W/d (T4). Cattle were fed for 12 weeks (April to July 2018) in
Banaran Village and Bleberan Village in Playen Subdistrict, Gunungkidul Regency, Yogyakarta.
The increase in income from the use of cassava-based concentrates was analyzed using the
Partial Budget, based on feed costs and LWG of the cattle. The increase of farmer's income per
animal over the control was Rp. 751,500.00, Rp. 1,323,000.00, Rp. 810,000.00 and Rp.
1,017,000.00 for T1, T2, T3 and T4 respectively. It was concluded that concentrate
supplementation at 1%W/d with composition 50% cassava, 25% copra meal, 25% soybean skin
gave the highest increase in income per head


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