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Journal article
Prospects and problems: considerations for smallholder cattle grazing in oil palm plantations in South Kalimantan, Indonesia
Agroforestry Systems, Vol.96(7), pp.1023-1037
01/10/2022
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Abstract
Keywords: Crop livestock systems; Smallholder agriculture; Farming systems; Grazing systems; Cattle management; Silvopasture Current Indonesian beef production only meets 45% of local demand. Increasing local beef production through integration of cattle production in pre-existing oil palm plantations is a possible solution to meeting this shortfall. The oil palm understorey provides feed, alleviating the need to convert additional land to agriculture. Smallholders are important contributors to both Indonesian cattle and palm oil production. This case study research seeks to understand key aspects of smallholder cattle management in palm oil production areas, to highlight opportunities and barriers to cattle integration. Thirty-nine smallholder cattle farmers from four villages in South Kalimantan were individually interviewed. The lack of alternative feed sources was the major driver towards the adoption of cattle production using oil palm understorey as feed. Cattle grazing was uncontrolled due to labour shortages and occurred in individually owned and 'plasma' plantations, with cattle penned at night where possible to avoid theft.
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- Title
- Prospects and problems: considerations for smallholder cattle grazing in oil palm plantations in South Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Creators
- Jori A Bremer - University of New EnglandLisa A Lobry de Bruyn - University of New EnglandR. Geoff B. Smith - Southern Cross UniversityWahyu DarsonoTjeppy D SoedjanaFrances C Cowley - University of New England
- Publication Details
- Agroforestry Systems, Vol.96(7), pp.1023-1037
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Grant note
- Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. This research was supported by a Crawford Fund student scholarship, an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) scholarship, and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (Project LS/2015/047).
- Identifiers
- 991013052312702368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2022 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article