Evaluation of Good Dairy Farming Practice Method on Dairy Farming in Subang District, West Java, Indonesia
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Indonesian Center for Animal Science Research and Development (ICARD)
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The majority of dairy farms in Indonesia are smallholder producers. The development of dairy farm increases level of income, especially smallholders. Subang District is territory development for dairy farm in West Java. The farm has been set up since 2000 and got training assessment from PT. Danone in 2009. To evaluate the application of the training, this research used Good Dairy Farming Practice (GDFP) model and seven aspects are evaluated. Research results shows that milking hygiene, reproduction, and animal welfare are good implementation. Meanwhile, social economic management aspect is not priority in the dairy farmers. The aspect has similar value with animal health, nutrition, and environment. Therefore, intervention programs that should be trained in Subang District should focus on four aspects: animal health, nutrition, environment, and social economic management.
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Dairy; Smallholders; Good Dairy Farming Practice