KENANGAN MAPRES KU

SUMMARY

Attempt Increase the Livestock Production of Small Class

Through Cultivation of High Quality Forage In Order To Reduce Imports of Meat In Indonesia

Protein requirements one agent of development that can determine the competitiveness of a country's human resources is a major concern in the provider. Animal protein is the largest portion supporting the availability of protein to meet needs. The population of Indonesia, according to Human Depelovmen Index (HDI) is currently around 238 million people with annual growth rate of 1.25 percent. During this to meet the needs of animal protein, are still sourced from imported meat which has the biggest portion in addition to local meat production. Special beef demand increases every year, in line with the increase in population and improvement of income that will also affect the elasticity of demand for beef.

The consumption of meat per capita per year in a row from 2007 to 2009 it has decreased due to lack of domestic production and the effects of the economic crisis that hit Indonesia since 1998 and the lack of high-quality conventional feed. But on the other hand demand for of meat in Indonesia has increased mainly from middle to upper economic class. Thus the need for of meat is still sourced from imports that make it difficult to increase the national income and the solution has been offered is still highly partial.

The idea that we offer the form of high quality feed crop development on a small scale of farms in order to curb imports of of meat. The program was conducted with the optimization and the opening of new lands for cultivation feed crop. It is applied to areas that have the potential of a small scale of farms.

Pennisetum purpureum is one that has a superior grass production and high nutritional value. With the potential of land resources qualified to grow elephant grass, plant it does not depend on the season. In the dry season can be harvested two times and in the rainy season could be three times, while the production up to three years. A net profit obtained with an area of ​​one hectare of land sales system blow is Rp 18.54 million / year with a B / C ratio of 1.49 and Break Even Point (BEP) = 2.49 with a production of 300 tons / ha (Prasetyo, 2004).