Peer Review Jurnal - Pemetaan Potensi Limbah Tanaman Pangan sebagai Pakan Mendukung Peningkatan Populasi Sapi Potong di Kabupaten Malang

Abstract

Malang Regency as one of regions in East Java has a large potential for the development of beef cattle population. One of the problems faced by breeders in Malang Regency was the fluctuation of forage. Using food crop by-products as feed becomes an alternative to meet the nutritional needs of livestock. This study mapped the potential of rice straw, corn straw, soybean straw, peanut straw, cassava straw and sweet potato straw as a source of feed to support the increasing of beef cattle population. The potential was determined based on the capacity of area per district due to the production of dry matter, crude protein and total digestible nutrients. The results showed that Donomulyo, Singosari and Kepanjen sub-districts had the greatest potential in increasing the population of beef cattle in average by 35.814 heads per year.