Abstract
A Case study was held at smallholder dairy farming at Malang, East Java Province of Indonesia. The research aimed to investigate the value-generating between the household labours in terms of the time allocation and its productivity in engaging dairy cattle. Multi-stage sampling method was a technique to obtain the three strata of dairy farming, including stratum-1(n=12), stratum-2 (n=8) and stratum-3 (n=6) with average owning about 5.22 AU, 6.5 AU and 7.88 AU, respevtively. Data collection used survey method for primary data, whereas secondary data were provided by related institutions. Descriptive analysis using the formulation productivity were applied to analyse the data. Results discovered that productivity per Animal unit stratum-3 confirms the highest one (IDR 20,041) than those stratum-2 (IDR19,084) and stratum-1 (IDR 17,087). This farm also devoted the efficient in rearing dairy cattle about 1.36 hours/AU compared to 1,41 hours (stratum-2) and 1.42 hours (stratum-1). In addition, the largest productivity per hours was on stratum-3 about IDR 14,736 in comparison with about IDR 13,535 for stratum-2 and IDR 12,033 for stratum-3. Regarding gender however, stratum-2 exhibited the highest productivity, namely IDR 13,567 and IDR 647 for men and women labour, respectively.
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