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Factors influencing farmers’interest in adopting KUB chickens for sustainable livestock development program
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This study aims to determine the effect of five variables characteristic of KUB chicken innovation, including relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability, on farmers’ perceptions in developing KUB chickens. It consists of four farmer groups in Cereme Taba Village, Lubuk Linggau City. The determination of the study location was taken purposively based on the consideration that Lubuk Linggau City was used for the development of KUB chickens. The study method used descriptive quantitative analysis to obtain 95 members of the farmer groups as respondents. Furthermore, the variables studied were the innovation characteristics and farmers’ perceptions measured by a mathematical model using the score category of each variable and the SIM (Successive Interval Method) program. The results showed that the farmers’ perceptions of the five variables were included in the agree category. It obtains positive support from respondents by looking at the advantages of implementing a technology package on the development of KUB chickens. From an environmental aspect, the development of KUB chickens can reduce household and market waste, especially vegetable waste used as a source of chicken feed. Waste reduction has a positive impact on environmentally friendly pollution.
In this paper, we determined the factors that affect the waiting time of rice farmers’ willingness to pay the premium for the Rice Farming Insurance Program (RFIP) using survival analysis. The survival analysis method was carried out using the Cox proportional hazard model with the Efron approach. The case study in this research is rice farmers in Cibungur Village, Parungponteng District, Tasikmalaya Regency. The results of the analysis show that the predictor variables that are significant to the waiting time of rice farmers’ willingness to pay the insurance premium for RFIP are their last education, other occupations, rice production, and farming costs. The results of the research are expected to produce additional information for the government and implementers of rice farming insurance regarding the condition of farmers in the field, so that it can be improved in the future.
One of the efforts to accelerate the flow of technological research results to users/farmers is through the development of Agricultural Techno Park (ATP). In this study, the performance evaluation of ATP development using cluster analysis was conducted by applying the Context, Input, Process, and Product (CIPP) model. The aims were to analyze the progress of ATP through clustering techniques and to formulate alternative strategy in the future. This study was conducted using a structured survey approach involving 76 farmers, April to June 2018, at the ATP Cigombong, West Java, Indonesia. The results of distance and similarity analysis showed that aspects of input and process had a closeness of satisfaction. Innovation assistance activities are not optimal, which should lead to becoming independent farmers. The future strategy has formulated context and product indicators in a participatory manner from the beginning, so that the target group understands and detects the progress. Farmers’ needs must be identified from the beginning of ATP development to strengthen self-reliance of supporting facilities. ATP needs to formulate a new method in planning of innovation assistance. It is also important to develop new training (such as motivational training, technical and managerial skills).
Poverty has remained a major governmental concern and in 2019, Indonesia^s poor population was 25.14 million, most of whom lived in rural areas. Consequently, several government programs have been designed to alleviate poverty, such as the development of native chicken farming for poor households which was implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the cash income from native chicken farms on a household scale. The location was Bulontala Village, Bone Bolango Regency where a total of 53 chickens were reared, and this research took place between July to September 2020. Subsequently, analysis results showed that at 70 days of harvest, the mortality rate was 1.88%, while the Sensi and KUB native chickens were estimated to have average body weights of 892 g/bird and 925 g/bird respectively. A total revenue from the sales was calculated to be IDR 2,340,000 with IDR 1,652,375 as incurred cash costs and IDR 687,652 obtained as the resultant earnings of the farmers. The RC ratio of the native chicken farming was 1.42 which was regarded as feasible, and as a result, this business was deemed capable of serving as a source of family income for the community. However, information on the chicken sales market and/or an increase in business scale are needed by the breeders and farmers to enable them to have the potential to realize profits.
To reduce the feed cost in raising chickens it is necessary to find alternative feed sources. The feed ingredients must have relatively low prices, do not compete with human needs, and have abundant availability on location. The purpose of this study was to determine
the performance of KUB chicken production with feed containing Lamtoro (Leucaena leucocephala) leaf flour (LLF). The study was conducted using 300 chickens aged 4 weeks, unsexed, which were allotted to 4 treatments, each with 5 replicates and 15 birds per replicate in a Completely Randomized Design. The treatments were in the form of a) T0: 0% LLF; b) T1: 3% LLF; c) T2: 5% LLF and d) T3: 7% LLF. The LLF was mixed with a basal feed in a mixture of concentrate, corn and bran. The study lasted for 6 weeks, i.e. until the chicken was
10 weeks old, with observations including daily weight gain (DWG), feed consumption, feed conversion ratio (FCR), and income over feed cost (IOFC). The results showed that the best performance of KUB chicken production was by the addition of 5% LLF in the feed, as it
could increase the DWG value, reduce the FCR value and increase the IOFC value.
In Indonesia, there are various serious efforts have been conducted by the government to fight against the poverty until recently. One of the leading projects recommended by the Indonesian Agricultural Development Research Agency was the assisted KUB chicken farming packages that has been carried out through the 2018-2019 BEKERJA Program. The KUB chicken was recommended because it has various advantages such as being able to be harvested at the age of 70 days and high egg production (180 eggs/year). Meanwhile, to assess the effectiveness of the program, especially in behavior and perceptions of poor households (participant of the program) involved towards farming of KUB chicken, an in-depth study was conducted in two sub-districts in Central Lombok district. There are 200 respondents randomly selected from 20 villages. The required data was gathered with structured questionnaire. It uses 13 indicators of KUB chicken farming technology as an instrument. Furthermore, the data, then analyzed using of descriptive analysis, regression and t-test with SPSS software. The result shows that gender, age, education and experience of respondents did not have a significant effect (P> 0.05) on their perception about KUB chicken farming technology. In contrary, the knowledge that taught through technical assistance has significant impact (P<0.05) on it. Amongst 13 components of technology that has disseminated and known by respondents, 38% of it has been applied. Moreover, the total score of respondent’s perception on farming of KUB chicken was 3.57. It means that the poor household involved in the program has accepted the technology for farming of KUB chicken that has been disseminated.
Native and local chickens have a great effect in the development of the local chicken industry in rural communities. Local chicken industry significantly contributes to the income value of national agricultural development as well as become an important foundation in building food self-sufficient. Indonesia has a wealth of genetic resources of native and local chicken with abundant genetic diversity, but has not been managed and utilized properly. In Indonesia, local chicken agribusiness is less developed due to lack of genetic improvement and has a direct impact with the very low contribution of meat and eggs. Indonesia has a variety of genetic sources for native and local chickens spread throughout the region. Native and local chickens contribute greatly to the rural economy but their production is still limited. Despite its low productivity, native chicken production is very important for rural communities. However, they face challenges how to increase the productivity of their population, which can benefit them financially and increase food security and reach market potential. This native chicken has the characteristics of slow growth and varied egg production. The development of the potential of native chicken and related issues of food security and food independence, local chicken is suitable for this. Information on the performance and productivity of local chickens is needed for local chicken development. Potential local chickens such as pelung chickens are known as singer chickens with a large body frame. Sentul chickens are another potential local chicken, known as meat-producing chickens with good egg production. Through breeding programs (selection and crossing), increasing the productivity of meat and eggs of native chicken can be done effectively. In addition, improving the quality of local chickens can be improved through conventional feeding management. The availability of selected local chicken in accordance to market demand is still limited. To overcome the lack of selected local chicken, the Faculty of Animal Science, IPB has been developing superior local chicken breed since 2012-2018 namely IPB-D1. The up-to-date Next Generation Sequencing technology through RNA Sequencing can identify candidate genes and potential SNPs quickly, thoroughly and comprehensively, as biomarkers for increasing both productivity (egg production, growth rate, and resistant to diseases) and meat quality (tenderness, flavor, meat fiber and fatty acid composition). During the last 6 years (2012-2018), several studies have been conducted on genes related to various trais: (1) disease resistance: toll receptor-4 (TLR4), mycovirus-1 (Mx-1), natural resistance associated macrophage-1 (NRAMP-1), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) genes; (2) meat production: growth hormone receptor (GH-r), growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHSR) genes; (3) meat quality: calpastatine (CAST), calpain (CAPN) and myostatin (MSTN) genes; and (4) composition of fatty acids: stearyol CoA desaturase (SCD) and salute carrier (SLC) genes. Genetic quality of native and local chickens might be improved to increase their production and meat quality in order to build the Indonesian chicken industry.
KUB-2 line of chicken has improved local chicken selected from the KUB-1 chicken line. KUB-2 was selected for more egg production and yellow shank. KUB-1 chicken has 64% various of black feather color, which sometimes tends to have unpreferred dark carcass. Yellow shank color has a positive correlation with the skin color of carcass. As many as 517 pullets of KUB-2 at 4th generation were divided into two groups of 194 pullets of KUB-2kk (yellow shank) and 323 pullets of KUB-2nk non-yellow shank). The chickens were raised intensively in the individual cages for the 24 weeks observation. Variables measured were age at first egg (AFE) bodyweight at first egg (BWFE), egg weight at first egg (EWFE), average egg weight (AEW), average egg production (AEP) during 24 weeks, feed conversion ratio (FCR) of 25-43 weeks of age, and mortality. The result showed that there was no statistically significant different (p>0.05) between KUB-2nk and KUB-2kk respectively for AFE of 156.2 d and 158.1 d, for BWFE of 1788 g and 1808 g, for EWFE of 31.32 g and 31.34 g, for AEP24 of 103.3 eggs or 61.5% and 101.9 eggs or 60.7%, and for FCR25-43 of 3.53 and 3.54. AEW increased with increasing age of hen, the mortality of the whole population was 0.98%.
This study aimed to determine the level of adoption of beef cattle breeders who follow the partnership system in Barru regency. This research was conducted from July until September 2017 in Tanete Riaja Sub-district, Barru District. The populations were all cattle ranchers who follow the partnership system in Barru regency. Samples are farmers who follow the partnership system showroom cows in District Tanete Riaja, Barru regency amounted to 28 people. Data type was the qualitative and quantitative data. Type of data was the primary data and secondary data. Data analysis used was descriptive statistic by using frequency distribution. The results showed that the adoption rate of beef cattle ranchers following the partnership system in Tanate Riaja Sub-district, Barru Regency was quite high in terms of the number of technological training implementation and the amount of technology adopted.
Salah satu permasalahan pembangunan pertanian adalah rendahnya tingkat adopsi inovasi pada tingkat petani dan permodalan. Pada tahun 2008 Program Usaha Agribisnis Pedesaan (PUAP) dilaksanakan bertujuan untuk masalah pembiayaan pertanian. Tingkat dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi adopsi inovasi pertanian penting dalam menentukan keberhasilan PUAP. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui tingkat dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi adopsi inovasi pertanian pada Gapoktan PUAP dan non PUAP di Kalimantan Barat. Kegiatan ini dilaksanakan tahun 2012 berlokasi di Kabupaten Landak dan Kabupaten Pontianak. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan survei dengan Model Logit. Penentuan responden dengan teknik Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling yang meliputi petani eks penerima dana PUAP dan petani non penerima dana PUAP. Jumlah petani 120 petani responden. Tingkat adopsi inovasi Gapoktan PUAP secara umum berada tingkat sedang, komponen teknologi yang diadopsi antara lain; benih unggul, pemupukan, penggunaan traktor, pengendalian hama dan penyakit, alat panen dan pasca panen. Faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi adopsi antara lain; jarak pemukiman lokasi usahatani, dan jarak pemukiman ke sumber teknologi. tingkat pendidikan, luas lahan dan aksesibilitas ke jalan raya, dan aksesibilitas ke sumber teknologi. Gapoktan PUAP mampu menaikkan produktivitas usahatani padi dibandingkan Gapokatan non PUAP secara langsung meningkatkan pendapatan usahatani.
Indigenous/native breeds of chickens are playing an important role in rural economies in most of the developing and underdeveloped countries. They play a major role for the rural poor and marginalised section of the people with respect to their subsidiary income and also provide them with nutritious chicken egg and meat for their own consumption. Performance of native fowl can be improved by change in husbandry, feeding, and better health cover. However, genetic improvement may be made either through selection and crossbreeding or by utilisation of both selection and crossbreeding. Improvement through selection may be time consuming but the improvement will be permanent. Through crossbreeding improvement may be faster but research has to aim for the production of native-type birds with higher production potential. In the present review efforts have been made to present the importance of native fowl to rural economy and their improvement for higher production performance.
The use of improved high yielding crop varieties is an important avenue for reducing hunger and food insecurity in developing countries. Using cross-sectional data obtained from a survey conducted during 2013 crop season, we performed a probit model (plot-level analysis) to determine the probability of adopting new improved rice varieties (NIRVs) by smallholder farmers particularly from two main agro-ecological regions (hills and tropical plain terai regions) of Central Nepal. The results revealed that education, extension services and seed access play significant roles in adoption decisions. Additionally, farm and field characteristic variables such as farm size, endowment of favorable land type (e.g. lowlands), and animal power (e.g. oxen) are the key factors influencing the probability of adopting NIRVs. The results showed that technology specific variables (e.g. yield potential and acceptability) are significant for explaining adoption behavior, implying that it is important to take farmers’ preferences to varietal characteristics into consideration in the design of a research and development program. Given the significant role played by extension and access related variables, increased emphasis on information dissemination, field demonstration, and farmers’ participatory research and training programs to popularize new rice varieties and enhance their adoption rate are required. This also suggests that policy intervention should be made on improving the educational status of farming households, and developing programs on varietal package of rice seed which offer farmers a variety of choices among the appropriate pools of germplasm. Such programs ultimately help farmers develop more profit-oriented behavior which are necessary to enhance adoption rate, production and food security in the long run.
The study was conducted to determine the impact of farmers' membership of cooperative societies on rice production. Against the backdrop that the promotion of membership of cooperative society among farmers would give them better access to agricultural inputs and consequently improve their income. Multistage sampling technique was employed to select a total of 310 rice farmers. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, budgetary technique and inferential statistics. The results revealed the mean age of the rice farmers as 48 years. Majority (92%) of the farmers produced upland rice, with a single harvest per year using mainly owned resources. Family labour was the most important source of farm labour in rice cultivation and about 60% of the members of the farm families participated in the family rice farm. The results further showed that 38.9% of rice farmers had primary education, 27.4% had secondary education, while 25.1% had no education. A total of 71% of the rice farmers were members of rice farmers' cooperative societies, while 29% were not. The average farm size cultivated was 1.72ha and 1.64ha for cooperative and non-cooperative members respectively. The result also showed that there is no significant difference in the gross margin per hectare realized by farmers that were cooperative members (N90, 222) and the non cooperative members (N92, 986). The input-use structure showed that cooperative members were more intensive users of purchased inputs like fertilizer and pesticides valued at N124,555 per ha (about 41% of variable cost) compared to the non cooperative members valued at N57,647 per ha (about 22% of the variable cost). Almost all the groups were established to serve as receptacles for subsidized agricultural services and inputs rather than real producer organizations that seek to attract commercial providers of services and ensure efficient marketing of their farm outputs. Further revelation from the study is the fact that membership of cooperative society was found to be influenced by household size, access to extension services, number of rice farms owned, access of rice farmers to herbicide and quantity of rice output. The non-significant difference in the gross margin of cooperative and non-cooperative members despite the greater intensity of use of purchased inputs (fertilizer and pesticide) by cooperative members suggests the need for monitoring of rice farmers who are cooperators in order to ensure that the substantial inputs are rightly channeled.
This paper aims to analyze the impact of improved maize adoption on farmers’ welfare in Benin, using a random sample of 356 maize farmers. We provide a rigorous estimation by addressing selection bias and endogeneity issues. First, we applied a double-hurdle model to identify factors that inform farmers’ decision to adopt improved maize. Second, we used the instrumental variable model to assess the impact of improved maize on farmers’ income, poverty status, and poverty gap. For this, we used the predicted area under improved maize from the double-hurdle model as an instrument for the observed area under improved maize. We found that farm size, extension services, training on improved seed, and farmers’ location are key variables that affect both farmers’ decision and the amount of land under improved maize. We also found evidence that adoption of improved maize is positively associated with yield, income, and poverty reduction. Finally, we found no heterogeneous impacts of improved maize among poor and non-poor farmers. Adoption of improved maize favors small landholding farmers but did not have a significant impact on income for those who own large farms size. Overall, our results suggest that improved maize variety is important for rural development.
Farmers all over the world have to decide what to produce and how to go about it. In the tropics, small farmers have to work with a limited resource-base which usually does not lead itself to highly productive systems of consistent crop and animal production. Yet those people who live in developing tropical countries should be concerned that their farmers do produce more from the limited resources with which they have to work. The principles of farm management economics and the applications of the tools and techniques of farm management analysis and planning can help small farmers in tropics to produce 'a bit more' from their lot. For the benefit of teachers and students of agriculture, farm extension advisors and agricultural planners and managers, this book sets out the principles and practices of farm management economics on small holdings in the tropics in a clear, simple, useful and usable way.
Traducción de: Communication of Innovations. A Cross-Cultural Approach
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