Supporting Indonesia’s commercial-scale beef cattle breeding industry
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Sentra Peternakan Rakyat (SPR) Mega Jaya Bojonegoro Successfully Breeds Australian Brahman Cross Cattle
Sentra Peternakan Rakyat (SPR) Mega Jaya is valued as successful in breeding Australian Brahman Cross cattle in 33 months partnership with the Indonesia Australia Commercial Cattle Breeding (IACCB) Program. For this success, the IACCB Program officially handed 73 Brahman Cross cattle to SPR Mega Jaya at Bojonegoro District today (7/10). Read more
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IACCB Formally Handed Australian Brahman Cross Cattle To KPT Maju Sejahtera in South Lampung
Thirty-seven breeder groups, members of the Livestock Production Cooperative (Koperasi Produksi Ternak/KPT) of Maju Sejahtera in Tanjung Bintang Subdistrict, South Lampung officially received the Brahman Cross Australia breeders from the Indonesia Australia Commercial Cattle Breeding (IACCB) Program (30/9). Read more
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Preliminary Results Are In!
After more than 2 years of partner engagement and project delivery, key commercial performance indicators (conception rates, calving rates, weaning rates, calving intervals and Average Daily Gains) are starting to show trends, supporting a more conclusive answer on the commercial viability of the SISKA model - cattle breeding in oil palm plantations and the Cut-and-Carry small-holder breeding model. The Open-grazing model will need another 6 months of data given the later start of the open-grazing project. Read more
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Industry Driven Education Takes Off
The growth of the Indonesian cattle breeding industry is highly dependent on investors having access to competent staff – which is currently lacking in Indonesia. IACCB is supporting a number of exciting industry backed initiatives that aim to fill this gap.Both initiatives will allow IACCB partners to pass on their acquired cattle breeding experience and knowledge to their peers, government agencies and other interested stakeholders. Read more
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Third Generation Cows for Sumarjono
Sumarjono only has one thing in mind when he wakes up in the morning, to make sure he gives plenty of feed to his cows. Read more
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New partnership with Government Supported Training Centre
An exciting collaboration with P4S Karya Mandiri Desa Kubu (Pusat Pelatihan Pertanian dan Perdesaan Swadaya) in Central Kalimantan is underway with the delivery of twenty pregnant BX-heifers, of which more than 50% have already given birth. Read more
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SISKA Partners are Investing
Buana Karya Bakti (BKB) in South Kalimantan is expanding their cattle breeding business. Read more
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Positive findings from Ganoderma Research
In 2018, the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) undertook preliminary research on the impact of cattle grazing under oil palm, specifically on soil fertility, oil palm productivity and the spread of Ganoderma. Read more
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Fertility of Brahman Cross
There has been conjecture in some circles (small farmers and the Government of Indonesia) that Australian Brahmans are not successful breeders in Indonesia. Read more
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SISKA – Encouraging Commercial Results
All four SISKA-partners have successfully passed their Commercial Viability Assessments and finished their two-year implementation period. Read more
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Open grazing – High Level Performance at Low Cost
The Open Grazing model is, as expected, proving to be a great success with the high level of performance at close to lowest cost. Read more
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Cut and carry – Good Conception Rates
The two Smallholder Cut and Carry partners have sustained good cattle conception rates in their second year of operation. Read more
Indonesia-Australia Commercial Cattle Breeding Program
IACCB, which commenced in February 2016, is a project within the Indonesia-Australia Partnership on Food Security in Red Meat and Cattle Sector. IACCB’s goal is to expand the commercial-scale beef cattle breeding industry in Indonesia. It does this by partnering with eight project partners in six Indonesia provinces, and testing three cattle breeding models (1) Integrated Oil Palm and Cattle Production; (2) Open Grazing and (3) Smallholder Cut and Carry.
Breeding Models
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- Integrated oil palm and cattle production
Our SISKA Partners are investing but challenges remain
Three out of four SISKA (Breeding cattle in Oil Palm Plantations) partners are expanding their herd, via selecting productive heifers and bulls from their Year 1 progeny, and through significant investments in more breeding stock. Their aim is to achieve improved economies of scale.
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- Open Grazing
Successful Pasture Development - the Key to low- cost production in an Open-grazing Model
There is nothing more important than increasing the quantity of high-quality pasture in an open-grazing model. After several trials, our open grazing partner CAP has successfully established 15 ha of improved pasture on their 100-ha farm.
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- Cut and carry smallholder group
Cut-and-Carry Small-holders deliver short calving intervals
IACCB has proven that strong fertility of Brahman Cross under tropical conditions can be achieved in small-holder breedlots, but this is highly dependent on intensive and strong management.
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September 2019
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