The Role and Performance of Bali Cattle Fed Agriculture Waste Product in Integrated Farming System

Abstract

A method to increase farmland productivity by integration of Bali cattle to support the family income was carried out. Nine farmers were involved and each of them has 0.5 ha of farmland. A Complete Randomized Block Design with three treatments that with no cattle in their farmland (T0), given one cattle (T1), given two cattles (T2) and three replicates of each treatment were used. Farmland, feed production and cattle growth were used as parameters. The soil condition of land was very poor where the C-organic content 1.25%. Keeping one and two cattles, the system will provide 2,065.9 and 4,677.7 kg manure in one year. Rice crop for T0, T1, and T2 were 3,514; 3,545 and 3,903 kg per 0.5 ha, not significant difference among them. Agricultural waste availability for T0, T1, and T2 were 15,403; 19,966 and 19,946.3 kg. These data suggested that the farmer can increase their cattle number up to 4 head/farmer in 0.5 ha crops land. Feeding agricultural waste supplemented with 1 kg of rice bran result Bali cattle gain was 0.55-0.56 kg/head/day. It was concluded that farm land productivity can be increased by integrating Bali cattle in the crops land area.