Keyakinan Akan Sebuah Harapan, Proud to Indonesia!

Judul dan tulisan yang akan saya posting mungkina akan sangat tidak ada hubungannya. So, aku harus membuat jembatan terlebih dulu supaya pembaca tidak akan kebingungan. Keyakinan akan sebuah harapan, atas apa? Atas Indonesia kawan. Malam ini aku begitu merasakan kesyukuran yang lebih sebagai orang Indonesia. Harapan apa? yaitu harapan Indonesia bisa lebih gila lagi dalam melihat kesempatan, lebih ganas lagi dalam membuka peluang menyalip semua sektor kebangkitan perekonomian dunia. Termasuk atas produksi sawit. 

Kau tau blog, Indonesia saat ini menjadi negara pengekspor terbesar kedua komoditi sawit. Satu Malaysia. Dari sawit ini, banyak sekali manfaat yang bisa di gunakan untuk mendapatkan keuntungan lebih, salah satunya dengan adanya integrasi perkebunan sawit dengan peternakan sapi.

Ini adalah tulisanku tentang Integrasi perkebunan kelapa sawit dengan peternakan sapi. Sayangnya, dalam bahasa inggris, esok atau kapan akan aku posting dengan bahasa Indonesia. Maaf blog ini tidak bisa di copy. :)

The Integration between Palm Farm and Cattle Breeding in East Kalimantan

Professionalism and integrity of the Husbandry Department is something important to increase the best service for the breeder in all over Indonesia. Nowadays, the roles of the Industrial Department and the Husbandry Department as the facilitator, stimulator, motivator, and regulator of Indonesian industrialist and breeders are better than before. The increase of their better role is very good progresses for Indonesian, but there are some breeding problems still appear before us. For example, the breeding condition in East Kalimantan still has some breeding dietary problems. Such as, it is difficult to provide a good quality and quantity of breeding diets continually. Moreover, now a large farming land in East Kalimantan has been changing into business and living area where the buildings stand firmly.

 

Many kind of effort to overcome those problems in East Kalimantan haven’t gotten a focus care from the governor yet. It is very unfortunate condition for East Kalimantan actually has large amount assets of natural resources that to be a great export commodity called palm. Large palm farm can be a solution to overcome some problems of cattle breeding that grow over there. As we know palm farm in East Kalimantan is very large; it is about 872.347 m² with about 4.471 million ton product of palm (Plantation Department of East Kalimantan). With the large area and great amount products of palm farm, there will be many addition product of harvesting palm that can be gotten from this industry; for example, Palm Pressing Fibre (PPF), Palm Sludge (palm mud), Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB), and Palm Kernel Cake (PKC).  Palm Pressing Fibre (PPF) is an additional product which is gotten from the process after boiling palm process, and the amount of Palm Pressing Fibre (PPF) is about 10% from each FPB (fresh palm bunch). And then about Palm Sludge (palm mud), it is an addition product from the washing product and separating CPO along with separating oil with amount about 20% from each fresh palm bunch. Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) is a empty bunch that can be used to fed flock after being processed to be pellet, and the volume of this addition product is about 35% from each fresh palm bunch. The last is Palm Kernel Cake (PKC); it is palm kernel which formed as cake from the core or seed of the palm with the volume about 49% from each fresh palm bunch that can be kind of diet for the cattle. Even, PKC has been become diet for the cattle largely with its digestion ability up to70%.

With those kind of palm farm progress in East Kalimantan, breeding industry must to be can use palm there that can be very beneficial for them. According to Husbandry Department of East Kalimantan, the latest breeding condition in East Kalimantan in 2011 is in very good condition. They have 98.699 beef cattle, 45 dairy cattle, 9.985 bulls, 61.691 goats, and 379 sheep. These numbers of flock are more than enough to call East Kalimantan as Indonesian central livestock, and that’s what truly they have.

Prospect of palm farm as source diet of flock is so high for growth of planting palm activity in Indonesia is great, that’s about 17% each year (Department of Husbandry Development). Thus, the pattern of integration between palm farm and breeding industry, especially ruminant, is very beneficial integration. Many benefits can be gotten from this kind of integration, such as palm farm can decrease production fund if they use cattle waste as the substitution of the inorganic fertilizer that has been used all these times. Besides, cattle waste is more effective than the artificial fertilizer to return and to repair the fertility of the soil to make the soil always in good condition.

Actually in East Kalimantan, the integration between palm farm and cattle breeding has been done in some parts of it, but the character of these integrations among them has been done individually and it has used only a simple relationship. For example, in Pasir Regency, breeders have farmed beef cattle in palm breeding area; beef cattle breeders have used waste of the palm as diet for their flock. However, these have been done only by few cattle breeders around the palm farm individually and not all the cattle breeders have done it yet. Actually, there are few cattle breeders have used waste of palm oil production in form of palm mud to feed their flock since 2005 (Head of Area Development and of Livestock Enterprises East Kalimantan). Palm kernel cake is a good main diet for the flock that not only does it contain  potential protein, but it also contain high nutrition and easy to get diets.

Thus, the integration between palm farm and cattle breeding is very good integration for the farmers, breeders and the environment. It is because they use the waste of the palm oil as the flock diet, so the waste of the palm oil doesn’t pollute the environment. Besides, flock in palm farm area will eat the weeds around the palm farm, so the palm farmers don’t need to spray the weeds with pesticides that can pollute environment. From the symbiosis mutualism between palm farm and ruminant breeder, especially beef cattle breeding, there are many benefits that they can get from it. They are: it can be one kind of effort to use local resources optimally and continually, and it can increase the role of the East Kalimantan citizen, especially farmers and breeders to build farming and livestock area that can be beneficial for both palm farmers and cattle breeders. Besides, it can increase the prosperity and income of the farmers and the breeders along with good environment, and far from the chemical pollution. Then, not only does it fasten of the economical growth, but it also supports to conceal the needed of the dietary pattern for the citizen, especially needed of beef by serving of high quality and nutrition diet for them. In conclusion, with the integration between palm farm and ruminant breeder, especially cattle which is arranged professionally, we expect to see the prosperity among farmers and breeders in East Kalimantan and all those who has activity in farming and livestock area.

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