Legal aspects in development of beef cattle in South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Abstract

Development of livestock, especially beef cattle is intended to achieve a high rate of production in order to accomplish the need of food that comes from animal. On the side of technology, livestock production has long been developed to increase the production, quality and the other reasons, however non-technical reasons are also affecting the livestock production. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explain the legal aspect of non-technical reason of cattle development, especially Bali cattle in South Sulawesi. In development of these livestock, mostly are raised by small holder farms system, whereas those cattle are raising in extensive system including housing and feeding system with very small livestock technology applied. The most two non-technical problems that limits the development of cattle even reduced the population are stealing the cattle and slaughtering of pregnant cows. These two problems are significantly inhibits the development of cattle population as well as sustainability. Efforts to cope the problems have been conducted by the government as well as in cooperation with national security. Regulation that related to the problems have also been made by the government, however it seems that several obstacles in application of this regulation. Therefore, it can be concluded that legal aspect that affecting the development of beef cattle in South Sulawesi is still need special attention for its application and supervision.