InfoSAWIT, TANAH BUMBU – When the challenge about decreasing land quality and numbers to breed calves in Indonesia, it is significant to revolutionize in the form of revitalization to efficiently get production and escalate food security in national scale.
In response to it, Center for Tropical Animal Studies (CENTRAS) Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) was in collaboration with Sistem Integrasi Sapi – Kelapa Sawit (SISKA) Supporting Program and invited stakeholders, including deans of faculty of livestock in Indonesia to attend field visit with the theme "Revitalisasi Pastura untuk Perbanyakan Sapi Pedaging."
It was running on Wednesday – Thursday (20 - 21 December 2023) in PT. Simbiosis Karya Agroindustri (SISKA) in Sub district of Satui, District of Tanah Bumbu, South Kalimantan Province.
Chairman of CENTRAS, IPB, Prof Nahrowi told that the main goal of the field visit is about to deliver deeper insight about palm oil – cow integrated program in palm oil plantations.
It is hoped the visit would be source of inspiration and local potential to research that could escalate calf production sustainably.
Prof Nahrowi also mentioned that it also would encourage the lecturers as the motivator to harmonize the programs and activity that would develop SISKA in Indonesia. "For all these years, there is no lecturers that mobilized besides PT SISKA. This is the chance to develop qualified research - collaboration,” he said.
He also emphasized CENTRAS got many research -offers from many instances, for instance, high – level education, BRIN, and Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA). But the future thing to do is about to get the same collaboration to develop SISKS programs, get innovation and new method about SISKA.
In the context to get educational support, there would be memorandum of understanding to do workshop and to decide standards of Mutu Bidang Keahlian Mahasiswa (MBKM) about palm oil – cow integrated program. “This is significant to develop science and prepare young generations about the program,” Prof Nahrowi said.
By involving other stakeholders in many sectors, the field visit is hoped to synergize sustainable development business model in calf industries in Indonesia. (T2)
