The role of grazing land on the buffalo population dynamics in Brebes regency

International Conference On Food Science and Engineering 2016

Sumanto^1

Indonesian Research Institute for Animal Production, PO Box 221, Bogor, Indonesia^1

关键词: Grazing land;    Indonesia;    Population densities;    Primary data;    Rice fields;    Secondary datum;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/193/1/012023/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/193/1/012023

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Brebes District is one of the centre of grazing buffalo in Indonesia that involve thousands of rearers usually kept as a family savings. This paper highlighted the availability of land and the role of the grazing land for the durability of the maintenance of buffalo in Brebes Regency. The information obtained is from interviewed the livestock facilitators in the sub-district (primary data) and from statistic of agriculture in Brebes Regency 2014 (secondary data). Generally the buffalo kept semi-intensively and commonly the buffaloes graze in the fields that are not used from morning until evening and during nights buffaloes are placed in the stalls. Rearers chose the semi-intensive system in rearing the buffalo because it is considered easy to manage and they do not need to provide fresh money to prepare the roughage for feed, because commonly the grazing buffalo are shepherd by herdman that will receive buffalo as their payment. The population density is very high (1.056 heads/km2), the buffalo ownership is between 2-4 head/households; generally the location of the grazing land is in the forest, rice fields fallow, and sleeping land, and estimated that greenfeed stock is still available abunandtly, on the other hand the urban land is less capacity of feed. The spread of buffalo is only in 125 villages from 297 villages in Brebes. The acceptance of buffalo business is around IDR 3.5 million to IDR 7.5 million/family/year. The availability of grazing land strongly influence the maintaining of buffalo farming by rearers.