Posted Wednesday, 03/10/2010 by admin
The government target to achieve beef self-sufficiency in 2014 by increasing the cattle population in Indonesia should be good news for cattle farmers in Indonesia. Unfortunately, for most farmers focused in beef cattle fattening, the commitment is not enough.
Because in the midst of everything, more and more ready-for-slaughter beef cattle are imported and overwhelming the domestic market. Not only that, frozen beef products are also freely sold at cheap prices, only Rp 39,000 per kilogram. Such conditions are not good for cattle farmers.
Posted Monday, 03/08/2010 by admin
Jakarta - Chicken collectors and slaughterers in Jakarta are still hesitant with the government’s offer for centralization of chicken slaughterhouses. Besides that, they were also concerned that if they accepted the offer then their customers could go to their competitors.
Yanto, a chicken slaughterer in Radio Dalam, South Jakarta, is still reluctant to move to Kebun Bibit Chicken Slaughterhouse in Petukangan Utara, South Jakarta. He is worried that chicken vendors whom have been his customers until now will be taken over by somebody else because the new location is far away.
Posted Thursday, 03/04/2010 by admin
The government is claiming success in its efforts to tackle avian flu despite almost half of all the deaths recorded around the world occurring in Indonesia.
Bayu Krisnamurthi, executive chairman of the National Committee for Avian Influenza Control and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (Komnas FBPI), told the Jakarta Globe on Wednesday that although Indonesia was leading the world in the number of recorded fatalities from bird flu, “the total number of reported cases keeps decreasing.”
Posted Monday, 02/22/2010 by admin
A rare Sumatran rhino in an Indonesian wildlife sanctuary will give birth in May to only the fourth calf of the endangered species born in captivity in more than a century, a scientist said Thursday.
The wild Indonesian-born mother, Ratu, was mated with Cincinnati Zoo-born Andalas, who nine years ago became the first of three rhinos born in captivity in the past 112 years, International Rhino Foundation executive director Susie Ellis said.
The calf is due to be born in a wildlife reserve on Sumatra island on May 11 after a 15-month pregnancy, Ellis said.
Posted Sunday, 02/21/2010 by admin
Banjarbaru, S Kalimantan - The Indonesian province of South Kalimantan remained prone to the attacks of bird flu but it would be free from the deadly virus by 2012.
"We have projected that South Kalimantan will be free from bird flu by 2012," Head of the province`s veterinary office Serafina Ariani said here Wednesday.
In reaching the target, she had taken measures as urging local chicken breeders to maintain bio-security around breeding complexes and tightening control of chicken transportation.
Posted Thursday, 02/18/2010 by admin
Center for Indonesian Veterinary Analytical Studies(CIVAS) in collaboration with the Livestock Service Office of Sukabumi District and Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) is conducting rabies education in schools and the hunting dog community in Jampang Tengah subdistrict, Sukabumi district. The program is for a year, starting from December 2009 until December 2010. Jampang Tengah subdistrict was targeted for the program because there were many cases of rabid dog biting and human victims in 2008. The program is expected to set Jampang Tengah subdistrict as a model for rabies mitigation in other subdistricts.
Posted Wednesday, 02/10/2010 by admin
Sukabumi - The district government of Sukabumi has expressed its inability to help poultry farmers in providing transportation vehicles for poultry carcasses. The reason is because special allocated funds are not meant for such purposes.
While on the other hand farmers need vehicles because DKI Jakarta as the largest poultry market will soon implement healthy bird market policies starting April 2010.
Posted Wednesday, 02/10/2010 by admin
Jakarta - The Agriculture Quarantine Agency is not fully ready to protect domestic markets from imported products in relations with the Free Trade Area ASEAN-China. Human resources, facilities, and infrastructures of the quarantine agency are very minimal.
This was revealed in meeting between Commission IV of the Parliament and the Agriculture Quarantine Agency (Barantan), Directorate General of Plantation, and Directorate General of Land and Water Management from the Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday (9/2) in Jakarta. Responses from the Barantan confirmed the Commission’s concern that the agency could not effectively protect domestic markets from imported commodities.
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