Entering the 5th Batch, the Small Scale Commercial Cattle Farming Business Management Training was again held on 13 – 19 March 2023 at Eastparc Hotel Yogyakarta & Fave Hotel Kediri. This training was organized in collaboration with the UGM Faculty of Animal Science and the Indonesia-Australia Red Meat and Cattle Partnership and has been going on since 2015 and is still ongoing today.

The training program will be highly focused on equipping smallholders with the technical and financial aspects of livestock business management which will enable them to carry out commercial and profit-oriented livestock production. The outcomes of this training are to: improve the commercial aspects of smallholder livestock business operations through good management practices that lead to more profitable businesses. read more

As a follow-up to the signing of the MoU between Universitas Gadjah Mada and AERES University of Applied Science in 2022, Faculty of Animal Science UGM are ready to realize collaboration in the field of research and internships for both staff and students. During her visit  to the Faculty of Animal Science UGM (13/3), Prof. Wil Bekkering, as the Director of International Strategy at AERES University of Applied Science, said that the collaboration could be even broader in the field of international exposure for students. “AERES is basically a vocational institution, so it can be a place for internships for students and staff. Also, being able to work together in the field of training such as the cage-free training center owned by Faculty of Animal Science UGM. For students, it is possible to carry out a double degree program,” said Prof. Bekkering read more

Dean of  Faculty of Animal Science UGM attended the Meet and Greet Program Charoen Pokphand Best Student Appreciation (CPBSA) Batch 5, 2023 invitation at the Holiday Inn Hotel Kemayoran Jakarta (4/3). In this event, CPBSA Batch scholarship recipients gathered and shared experiences regarding the programs that had been implemented.

CPBSA is a scholarship from PT Charoen Pokphand which is given to final year students from various majors and universities in Indonesia through strict selection.

As a follow-up to this activity, the participants and invited guests took part in a comparative study and visited the international exhibition in the livestock industry VIV Asia 2023 in 5 – 10 March 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. (Secretariat/Prisil) read more

Students of Faculty of Animal Science UGM enthusiastically took part in a public lecture on the topic of Biosecurity which was held at the Auditorium drh. R. Supardjo (28/2). The resource person in this public lecture is a team from the Northern Territory, Australia. This activity is part of The Indonesia-Northern Territory Biosecurity Program, which is a cooperation program between Indonesia and the Northern Territory Government, Australia in the field of biosecurity that has been implemented since 2012. In this activity, cooperation programs that have been and will be carried out are also presented. read more

A total of 69 new students of the Animal Science Professional Engineering Program for the Odd Semester of the Academic Year 2022/2023 participated in the new student admission event held in a hybrid manner at the ASLC Building, Faculty of Animal Science, UGM (25/2). The new engineering students consist of 57 students from the RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) scheme and 12 students from the regular scheme.

Dean Faculty of Animal Science UGM, Prof. Ir. Budi Guntoro, S.Pt., M.Sc., Ph.D., IPU., ASEAN Eng., emphasized the importance of professional engineers in the biological sector, especially in animal science, in his speech. “Animal science engineers are part of the human resources managing biological resources. Engineers today are not only involved in the management of physical resources such as infrastructure development but also in the management of biological resources,” said Prof. Budi Guntoro. read more