Abstract
This study’s objective was to investigate the income and R / C of sheep business. This research was conducted on Cilawan Village,Pantai Cermin Sub District, Serdang Bedagai Regency, Sumatera Utara Province for 2 months starting from September until November 2017. The study was a survey which used Determination Method. Number of samples were 30% of total number of breeder in research area; there were 8 respondents whose intensive breeders and 30 respondents whose semi intensive breeders. The data used in this research were primary data and secondary data. Primary data were the result of interviews with respondents and secondary data were obtained from the Central Bureau of Statistics. The results showed that intensive breeder earned income smaller compared to semi intensive breeder. Income on every sheep sale was Rp 3.468.241,-on intensive and Rp 5.794.982,- on semi intensive breeder and the value of R/C was 0.144. The conclusion of this study that sheep breeding system in Celawan Village Regency consisted of two maintenance system, intensive and semi intensive system which gave different effect to farmer's income. This was because intensive maintenance systems required more costs for feed and labor costs compared to semi intensive system.
Highlights
Celawan village has an area of 19.65 km2 consisting of 1770 families with a total of 6600 people who mostly work as farmers and breeders
Semi intensive maintenance system had higher fixed cost compared to intensive system maintenance, that was Rp 2,968,333 with composition 23,73% from total cost spent for sheep breeding business
The composition of expenditures for variable costs on intensive systems was higher, the total cost for variable costs was still lower, i.e Rp 5,329,813, compared to expenditures for variable costs in the semi-intensive maintenance system, which was Rp 7,665,09
Summary
Celawan village has an area of 19.65 km consisting of 1770 families with a total of 6600 people who mostly work as farmers and breeders. Sheep population in 2014 reached 5,180 heads [1]. In the morning most of the breeders whose live close to plantation area, they shepherd their sheep to the plantation area and cage the sheep at night. Unlike the breeders whose live rather far from the plantation area, they raise sheep with intensive systems because their grazing sites do not exist. The breeder provides the feed and feeds it into the cage [2]
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