By: Choirul Fuadi)*
CIDISS – Food and Agriculture Sustainable Agency (DKPP) Sukamara make efforts and programs to improve the productivity of livestock, especially in cattle. For example, through the Mandatory of Upaya Khusus Sapi Induk Wajib Bunting (Special Effort for pregnancy/ Upsus Siwab).
Through the program, Sukamara Food and Agriculture Sustainability Agency (DKPP) have injected Artificial Insemination (IB) to 21 cattles, where most of the animals are pregnant. This is said by the Head of Husbandry Division of DKPP Sukamara, Syamsir Hidayat, “From 21 cows in acceptors, there are 12 pregnant cows and 3 cows are born,”
According to him, the purpose of Upsus Siwab program through injecting system can provide several advantages such as increasing population and livestock production, the availability of adequate food, safe, quality, nutritious and diverse at affordable prices by the community and can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of livestock farming.
“We hope in this program, not only achieve the target acceptors, but also can achieve the target of pregnancy and birth. Thus, the purpose of the program can be usage for farmers, especially community of Sukamara, “please Syamsir Hidayat.
Syamsul added, there are about 450 cattles in the program. It has a target, of 450 cattle, must successful as many as 293 cattle with 225 cattle birth.
And to increase the success in achieving these targets, DKPP Sukamara keeps monitoring daily on cows conducted by IB, cows that are pregnant and giving birth.