Issues in Smallholder Tropical Dairying∗

Smallholder dairying is attractive to agricultural policy makers in Indonesia owing to its success in the countries of South Asia. The principal constraints facing Indonesian dairying are reproduction, nutrition and marketing. The hot, humid conditions unfavourably affect the imported Friesian cows on which the industry is based, leading to low milk yields and reproductive capacity, and necessitating a continuing reliance on imported stock. Agricultural residues used for stock feed are cheap to produce and their collection provides employment in rural areas, but the nutritional value of this forage is poor. Marketing constraints for dairy products include widespread lack of refrigeration in rural areas and prices which are too high for all but the urban middle class. For intensive research on Indonesian dairying to be worthwhile, the gains in productivity attributable to research would need to be between one-quarter and one-third of present levels of milk production per lactating cow per year. It is not apparent that gains of this order are feasible

Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Indonesian · Productivity · Stock (firearms) · Agricultural Economics and Policy · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Livestock Farming and Management

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