InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - To fulfill cow meat supply nationally which always is in deficit, palm oil – cow integrated program could be one solution. This is goad because palm oil plantations provide woof.
Palm oil – cow integrated program is 100% OK to be implemented in mineral areas within flat to wavy topography. While in hilly, peat, and mineral peat areas which may be full of water or have drainage, it is not good.
Ranch Manager of PT Buana Karya Bhakti, Wahyu Darsono said, it needs to get potential areas to get properness condition. From palm oil plantations that laid about 16,38 million hectares, not every region is good to implement the program. That is why data is the significant factor.
But the program could potentially be developed. It needs to control weeds/bushes well for becoming the cheap source to get woof. It needs to manage and process solid oilcake and leaves because they are cheap sources too.
Of many woof sources to breed ruminant animals, such as, cow, Wahyu continued, palm oil plantations have been observed for the past two decades. They provide woof in the form of grass under palm oil trees namely before the trees have leaves. Derivative products from palm oil industry, such as, palm kernel oilcake, midrib, leaves, empty bunch, fiber from fresh fruit bunch squeeze, and mud, are the sources of concentrate woof.
“Biomass advantage chance from palm oil plantations as the source of cow delivers many ideas about cow meat stock prospect. Palm oil – cow integrated program is one beneficial approach between planters and cows themselves,” he recently said to InfoSAWIT.
Breeding cow generally delivers the positive, such as, the feces can be used as organic fertilizer, help to cut off the weeds, while on the other hand, palm oil plantations provide kinds of biomass as the woof.
Wahyu continued, this program can be running in Indonesia because the plantation owners would get additional economic values by breeding cows, such as, the calves, and beef, and also organic fertilizer. By implementing sistem integrasi sapi dan kelapa sawit (SISKA), plantation owners would save the cost to cut off weeds and buy organic fertilizer.
“For the nation, SISKA would be comparative mainstay to get more cows in Indonesia,” he said. (T2)
