Micro Policy Interventions to Increase Income in Beef Cattle Business in Kupang District

Abstract

A study has been conducted with the aim to determine the actual behavior of beef cattle farmers' income and formulate micro-policies for beef cattle farmers' income in Kupang district. Sampling in this study was conducted in stages. The first stage was purposive sampling of four sub-districts, the second stage was snow ball sampling of 40 farmers and traders and six government officials using an interview approach. The number of key informants depends on the saturation of information obtained. The software used in this research is Ventana Simulation (Vensim) PLE. The results showed that the actual behavior of calf production and income from beef cattle farmers tended to decrease, each by 20.61% and 3.73% per year, respectively. Therefore, policy interventions are needed: 1) increasing calving rate can increase the population of young beef cattle by 3.35% per year and profits by 3.49% per head per year; 2) adding feed supplementation can increase the population of young beef cattle by an average of 4% per year, fattening males by 2.81% per year, and profits by 4.03% per head per year; 3) increasing stakeholder service intensity can increase the population of young beef cattle by 3.12% per year, fattening male production by 5.04% per year, and average profits by 3.37%.