Abstract:
Abstract—Feed Bank was the beef-cattle feed production
unit that established by farmer group. Feed Bank was the
solution of problem in accessing nutritious feed for beef-cattle in
subsistence farmer. Beef-cattle farmer in Indonesia doesn’t have
access to nutritious feed for beef-cattle because lacks of capital,
tool and machine for processing beef-cattle feed, and labor.
Through farmer group, farmer could unite the existing capital
and collectively providing beef-cattle feed from local resource
efficiently and sustainably. The concept of Feed Bank could be
applied as intensification program for subsistence beef-cattle
farming. So that, productivity of beef-cattle farming could be
enhanced and thus, providing market’s need for beef-cattle’s
meat. This research aimed to know the implementation of Feed
Bank concept in subsistence beef-cattle farming. This research
was held to group farmer which has been implementing Feed
Bank concept. The result showed that Feed Bank was able to
provide beef-cattle feed effectively, efficiently and sustainably.
In the end, the Feed Bank also changing the farming system from
subsistence farming into the agribusiness-based farming
