InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – As usual heading to Idul Fitri or other religious days, the needs of meat keep increasing. Unfortunately, fresh meat supply is still deficit and sometimes the price keeps highly being expensive.
That is why the government through General Directorate of Livestock and Animal Heath (GDLAH), Ministry of Agriculture tries to fulfill fresh meat supply in this country. In 2022 GDLAH targets to produce meat up to 4,59 million tons in the domestic and 451,26 thousand tons for the export.
Of course, to realize the targets, GDLAH decided prior activity and implemented three programs nationally by the upstream to downstream approach, cooperation, partnership and authority synergy.
Of the three prior programs nationally, one of them is breeding cow within Palm oil – Cow Integrated Program.
Chairman of Gabungan Pelaku dan Pemerhati Sistem Integrasi Sapi-Kelapa Sawit (Gapensiska), Joko Irianto told palm oil plantation business, if running Integrasi Sapi Kelapa Sawit (SISKA) program, it would help the government in saving the exchange because Joko noted, there would be six advantages to get, they are, the first, it would minimize meat cow volume exports and calves that equal to 1.2 million cows in the United States (US) dollar. The second, it saves chemical fertilizer application because of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the fertilizers get much more expensive because of supply issues. The third, by SISKA program, it would reduce toxic application to the weeds and eventually it saves costs. “It reflects environmental and sustainable palm oil plantations,” he recently said in Whatsapp Group of Gapensiska that InfoSAWIT joins.
The fourth, SISKA would reduce conflicts between cow breeders in palm oi plantations. It would implement integrate and programmed beef cattle – breeding and would deliver additional values for the plantations and breeders around. The fifth, as he continued, SISKA would deliver technology substitution about delivering woof, the mating process with superior male, controlling integrated diseases and get additional values to get more productive cow breeding. “The sixth, there would be more advantages for the smallholders to get additional values from SISKA,” Joko said. (T2)
