Faculty of Animal Science Universitas Gadjah Mada held a training event for farmers and livestock breeders titled “Training on Forage Land Management Towards Gama Umami Feed Bank” on August 22. This event is part of the activities funded by the Kedaireka Matching Fund grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology – Directorate General of Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia (Kemendikbudristek – Dikti RI).

The event was held at Faculty of Animal Science Auditorium and attended by 100 livestock breeders and farmers from the Sleman Regency (dairy farmers who were involved in the Kedaireka activities of Faculty of Animal Science), as well as additional participants from Bantul, Kulonprogo, Gunung Kidul, and other regions such as Depok, Pacitan, Pati, and Kendal. This training is part of an effort to ensure feed security available throughout the season through land management and cultivation. The event opened with a speech by Prof. Ir. Budi Guntoro, S.Pt., M.Sc., Ph.D., IPU., ASEAN Eng., Dean of the Faculty of Animal Science at Universitas Gadjah Mada. In his speech, he emphasized the Faculty’s commitment to contributing and assisting the community in the field of animal science, particularly feed. The symbolic handover of Gama Umami seedlings was carried out by the Dean to the representative breeders in attendance. read more

The Indonesia Australia Red Meat and Cattle Partnership is again holding a “Small Scale Commercial Cattle Farming Business Management Training” in collaboration with the Faculty of Animal Science Universitas Gadjah Mada and the Faculty of Animal Science, Hasanuddin University. This training was held in Makassar on 24 – 29 July 2023. The target participants in this training were farmers in Kalimantan and Sulawesi with a minimum number of private ownerships of 10 head of cattle and who were commercially oriented. read more

Faculty of Animal Science UGM in collaboration with Global Food Partners and AERES University of Applied Science, The Netherlands, successfully held the International Training on Cage-free Innovation and Welfare Hub for the first time on 9 – 15 July 2023. International Training on Cage-free Innovation and Welfare Hub is a training for academics to learn the practice of cage-free farming system. These pilot cage and training centers are open not only to domestic academics, but also to those from abroad. read more

Collaborating with Bank Indonesia, Faculty of Animal Science UGM organized training and mentoring for halal certification for Slaughterhouses in Yogyakarta and its surroundings (5/5). This training is routinely held every year. This training was attended by slaughterhouse owners and slaughter workers from Yogyakarta and its surroundings. The main objective of this training is to provide assistance for slaughterhouses and slaughter workers to be able to obtain halal certification and become halal slaughter workers. It is expected is that slaughterhouses and slaughterhouses can comply with Islamic law and be certified. (Secretariat/Prisil) read more

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