1) Indonesia is the world's largest palm oil producer, with over 8 million hectares of plantations, most located in Riau Province. Palm oil farming relies heavily on chemical fertilizers which can harm the environment long-term. 2) Introducing livestock grazing under palm trees and using their waste as organic fertilizer is one solution for more sustainable palm oil production while reducing costs. 3) A project in Riau introduced livestock farming technologies to 30 farmers, including producing liquid organic fertilizer from cattle waste and using palm byproducts for feed. After 2 years, 19 farmers adopted the technologies, reducing fertilizer costs by 50-60% and doubling their cattle herd.

1. Knowledge and Technology Transfer
on Livestock Farming for Sustainable
Palm Oil Plantation
by Ali Agus
FACULTY OF ANIMAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA
YOGYAKARTA
Asia Sustainable Local Resource Management Workshop, Fukuoka, March 6, 2012

2. INTRODUCTION
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 Indonesia is the world
biggest palm oil producing
country (>8 million ha)
 Province of Riau is the
largest area of plantation
 Palm oil plantation has
been criticizing for not
environmentally farming
system => global warming
 Highly dependent on the
chemical fertilizer that
may in long term harmful
to the environment

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More friendly farming system to support
sustainable palm oil plantation, while
reducing the cost of production, would
be the challenge in the future !

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INTRODUCTION OF LIVESTOCK FARMING
UNDER PALM TREES WOULD BE ONE OF
THE SOLUTIONS

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LIVESTOCK GRAZING UNDER PALM TREES
Farmers generally use herbicide to kill or clean the grass

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CATTLE CAN BE USED FOR
WORK/TRANSPORT

7. KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ON
LIVESTOCK FARMING FOR SUSTAINABLE PALM
OIL PLANTATION WAS DONE IN ‘KUD TUNAS
MUDA’ DAYUN-SIAK-RIAU SUMATERA

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1. Liquid Organic Fertilizer (LOF)
2. Feed technology based on palm
trees by products (leaf and palm
kernel cake)
3. Biogas development
4. Livestock management
INTRODUCTION OF APPLIED
TECHOLOGY : EASY - CHEAP

9. METHODS :
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TRAINING – STUDY TOUR - DIRECT COACHING REGULARLY
30 farmers member of KUD ‘Tunas Muda ‘ were trained & Study tour to UGM

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PALM’s LEAF
AS LIVESTOCK FEED

11. FEED TECHNOLOGY BASED ON
PALM TREES BY PRODUCTS

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MOLASES
MULTI MICROBES

13. LIQUID ORGANIC FERTILIZER (LOF)

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COLLECTION OF URINE / LIQUIID MANURE

15. PREPARATION AND FERMENTATION
OF LIQUID ORGANIC FERTILIZER

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Famer produce LOF 750 – 3000 liter / month

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19. BIOGAS DEVELOPMENT :
Energy for electricity, cooking and chopper

20. RESULTS & CONCLUSION :
After 2 years of training and direct coaching :
- 19 Farmers (63%) adopted the LOF technology
based on cattle manure
- Beef cattle population increased two times (from
200 to 400 head)
- Production cost (chemical fertilizer) reduce 50-
60% after replaced by LOF
- Farmers get additional income 55.000-170.000
yen/month
- Palm oil trees productivities improved
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21. CONCLUSION
 Introduction of Livestock farming under
palm oil plantation offer significant benefit
either economically or environmentally
for the future sustainable farming system
including forest and agro forestry
management
 However, knowledge and technology
transfer through direct and regularly
coaching to the farmers will be one of the
key success of technology adoption rate
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23. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
1. Financial support from the PTPN V Riau for
running the project was highly appreciated
2. Sustainable Community Based resource
Management and International Cooperation
Project (SCBRM Project, Laboratory of
Forest Policy, Kyushu university, Fukuoka
Japan
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