Evaluation of the initial approach strategy of animal husbandry service officers on the characteristics of beef cattle farmers as determinants of the sustainability of the artificial insemination program

Abstract

The artificial insemination program carried out by the Department of Animal Husbandry and farmers has not shown the expected results, there is even a tendency that this program is just a name. This unsustainability trend is based on the results of field surveys on farmers participating in the artificial insemination program, the cause of which is the weak initial approach strategy by animal husbandry officials on the characteristics of farmers, such as in terms of education, consultation, cross check line, and follow-up. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the initial strategy of the characteristic approach to beef cattle farmers in the sustainability of the artificial insemination program run by the livestock department. The research method used is to determine three regency, the number of respondents 30 people participating in the artificial insemination program is determined intentionally, namely 10 people each for each regency and is considered representative because it is homogeneous. The data was collected by means of focused group discussions, direct interviews using questionnaires, then the data that had been collected was processed and analyzed by descriptive statistics. And to facilitate data processing, the qualitative and quantitative data collected is processed by categorizing 3 levels based on the Likert scale, namely high = 3, medium = 2, and low = 1. The results showed that the rating score of the characteristics through the approach of education, consultation, cross check line and follow-up, each rating score was 1.77; consulting 1.78; cross check line 1.56; and follow-up 1.56. This means that the initial approach of the artificial insemination program carried out by the livestock service on the characteristics of beef cattle breeders still requires total improvement through the stages of education, consultation, cross check line, and follow-up approaches for control.