Animal husbandry is one sector that plays vital role in national development. This sector gives significant contribution in increasing national income. In the past ten years, husbandry sector gives 3.6% growth per year. However in people’s husbandry activity, there are still many obstacles, such as feed quality, the expensive price of concentrate feed, non-optimal waste management and non-optimal marketing.
Therefore, an effective technology device is required that can be used to handle those problems and applicable. Five UGM students tried to apply Good Bacteria 1 (GB-1) bio-activator technology through social empowering program based on integrated husbandry agribusiness. The students are Adhita Sri Prabakusuma (Faculty of Agriculture), Adi Tri Mulyo (Faculty of Agricultural Technology), Farida Umi Inayati (Faculty of Agriculture), Asmary Muis (Faculty of Agriculture), and Heni Dwi Sulistyorini (Faculty of Animal Science).
GB-1 is inoculums microbial that can be utilized to manage organic waste through fermentation. Besides, it can be used as supplement of pre-biotic animal feed. “The organic content inside GB-1 is very potential to add nutrition in feeding process and also increases digestive level of feed,†team leader Adhita explained, Wednesday (24/2) at Fortakgama Room, UGM.
Adhita mentioned that bio-activator makes animal feed more nutritious so that it can increase the weight of livestock. By consuming regular feed, the cow’s weight only increases 3-5 kg per month, but with GB 1 the weight will increase up to 6-10 kg per month. Therefore, the breeders can save stock of livestock feed.
It has been known that the price of concentrate feed is relatively expensive about 3-5 thousands rupiah per kg. Meanwhile, everyday breeders spend at least 15 thousands to buy the feed. Bio-activator will save feed stock cost. One litre of light GB 1 can be used for 4 quintals of livestock feed. The price of 1 litre GB 1 is 15 thousands. “So, it saves money, doesn’t it?†Adhita said.
GB 1 is also beneficial for waste management as organic fertilizer and pest controller. In the making process of organic fertilizer, this bio-activator can increase useful microbial for soil fertility.
Adi Tri Mulyo added that GB 1 bio-activator technology has been applied in breeder community in Petir, Srimartani village, Piyungan sub-district, Bantul a year ago trough breeder community empowering program entitled PROVITA (Husbandry innovation program) and Tersenyum (skilled, healthy, comfortable, independent). Tri Mulyo said that there are seven Provita programs: replication of inoculums bio-activator GB 1, liquid organic fertilizer and urine fermentation, super organic fertilizer, fermented straw, application of pro-biotic GB 1, green pen, and ANDINI breeder award for outstanding breeder.
Farida Umi representing her friends expressed happiness and pride with their achievement. Their program will be applied as national program to develop Indonesian husbandry. “Today we have established cooperation with Ministry of Research and Technology so the program can be applied to improve national husbandry,†Farida said.