Faculty of Animal Sciences UGM in collaboration with Indonesia Australia Red Meat and Cattle Partnership invited farming companies and cow breeders to make a field visit to Brisbane, Australia, from 21- 30 April 2019. The visit was one of the projects of Commercial Cattle Breeding and Management Training Program Batch III. Previously, they did training in Indonesia from 1- 12 April 2019.

Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dr. Ir. Ali Agus, DAA., DEA., IPU, when contacted on Tuesday (30/4), said the programme was very useful for the cattle breeders to get a picture of the field in Australia and Indonesia to make them more professional in national cow breeding. read more

One Doctor and six Masters graduated from Faculty of Animal Science (FAS) in the graduation period of April 2019. FAS UGM held graduation ceremony on Wednesday (24/4) at the Drh. R. Soepardjo Auditorium of FAS UGM.

“Congratulations to the graduates. At the moment, the learning pattern at FAS UGM is more encouraging. FAS UGM has increased one infrastructure, namely an international scale research farm in collaboration with PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia, Tbk. The farm can be used as research activities, one of them is dissertation research,” said the Dean of FAS UGM, Prof. Dr. Ir. Ali Agus, DAA., DEA., IPU when giving a remark at the graduation ceremony. read more

Rector of UGM, Prof. Ir. Panut Mulyono, M.Eng., D.Eng., officiates Research Farm (Closed House) on Tuesday (23/4) at Faculty of Animal Sciences UGM. The Research Farm is a result of a cooperation between the Faculty and one subsidiary of PT. Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk. (JAPFA), PT. Ciomas Adisatwa.

Prof. Dr. Ir. Ali Agus, DAA., DEA., IPU., Dean of the Faculty, said the Research Farm aimed at supporting student research both from undergraduate and graduate programmes. “We hope the presence of Research Farm would increase research at Faculty of Animal Sciences. We aim at achieving the ranks of Best 5 Faculty of Animal Sciences in Asia and Best 10 among tropical countries, “ he said. read more

Indonesia Australia Red Meat and Cattle Partnership and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) have conducted training programme batch 3 for breeding and management of commercial cattle.

This is the first time to be done with UGM but the third done by the Partnership. This time it is followed by 20 participants from Indonesia who are industrial players in slaughter cow, oil palm, and commercial cattle.

The training lasts for three weeks with two weeks being in Indonesia from 1-12 April 2019, including training and field visits to cow breeding models in Java and Kalimantan. The last week will be field visits to farming sites in Queensland Australia from 21-30 April 2019. read more

Faculty of Animal Science (FAS) UGM, Cropmark Seeds New Zealand Ltd, and PT New Zealand Livestock Feed Systems Indonesia are collaborating on experiments and joint research on forage crops for livestock. The Memorandum of Agreement letter was signed on Monday (1/4) at the FAS UGM campus.

“The huge forage need is a challenge for us. For this reason, real action is needed to develop grass. This is a good opportunity, thank you for your support. The result of this research has been awaited by end-users (industries),” said the Dean of FAS UGM, Prof. Dr. Ir. Ali Agus, DAA., DEA., IPU when giving a remark at the MoA signing. read more