The excessive use of antibiotic and growth promoter (AGP) is a challenge for the world of livestock industry in Indonesia. AGP stimulates bacterial and residual resistance stored in livestock products (meat, milk, eggs) are harmful to human health because they cause pathogenic bacterial resistance. Food and Agriculture Organization notes that the use of antibiotics in agriculture reaches 63,000-240,000 tons every year.

“The challenge is getting harder with the low purchasing power of Indonesian people towards livestock products. “Among the 260 million of Indonesians, only 30 million people have high purchasing power,” said the Dean of the Faculty of Animal Sciences UGM, Prof. Dr. Ir. Ali Agus, DAA., DEA., IPU when delivering a presentation in the in-class training of Work-Based Academy on Monday (1/10) at Faculty of Animal Science UGM. read more

The increasing population of Indonesia and the increasing urbanization flow to 6.6% in 2035 has the potential to reduce the number of food producers in rural areas. This will be a challenge for the development of the livestock industry in Indonesia, considering the world’s food needs will increase by 60% due to population growth.

“The population of cattle and buffalo during the period 2010-2014 continues to increase. Even so, there are still challenges in the development of cattle and buffalo,” said Ismatullah Salim, S.Pt., as Subdivisions Head of Accounting, Verification and Follow-Up Monitoring (TLHP), Finance Section of the Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia. providing in-class training to participants of the Work-Based Academy, Friday (5/10) at the UGM Faculty of Animal Husbandry. read more

Indonesia as a large archipelago with an area of ​​192 million Ha has 80% of small farmers who own land less than 1 ha and 28 million households with 11.1 million have no land. As many as 50% of the 13 million hectares of food producers (rice) in Java and 50% of farmers are only 21% of the total agricultural land.

“Based on the data, community empowerment needs to be conducted. Communities can be empowered to manage local potentials to achieve prosperity,” said Vice Dean for Research, Community Service, and Collaboration of Faculty of Animal Science (FAS) UGM, Bambang Suwignyo, S.Pt., M.P., Ph.D. when delivering training to participants in the Work-Based Academic in-class training, Monday (1/10) at FAS UGM. read more

Faculty of Animal Science (FAS) UGM student, Laksa Ersa Anugratama, won the best poster award at the KMP UNHAS Scipertion PSP National Scientific Writing Competition held on September 14-15, 2018 with the theme on independent fisheries and marine sector. Together with Lutfiana Pasebhan Jati from the study program of Remote Sensing Study and Geography Information System UGM, Laksa presented a poster entitled “Geospatial Information System Utilization Based on” SACOREEF WEBGIS “as a Coral Reef Conservation Effort in Order to Achieve Sustainable Maritime Development”. read more

Postgraduate Program Students of Faculty of Animal Science (FAS) UGM, Hamdani Maulana, successfully won the best paper award at the International Conference on Green Agro-Industry and Bioeconomy (ICGAB) in Universitas Brawijaya, September 18-19, 2018.

“The article I presented about the potential use of oil palm plantations as a cattle grazing area. So far, oil palm plantations are still considered as an agro-industry sector that reduces national forest land area and has an impact on land biodiversity reduction, which has caused conflict and rejection from several parties,” Hamdani said. read more