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spring. Farm budgets and related financial
analysis will be assessed at each production
stage. The regularity of income flow is expected
to stimulate the farmer to achieve a higher
productivity level as a response to the level of
price received. Therefore, the objective of
increasing farmer income, in the long run, can
be achieved by improving small ruminant
production through the intensive production
scheme.
At the aggregate level, improved production
efficiency can be shown by collective
action in the villages. This action is actually a
result of a multiplier effect of the project in
which interested farmers in the same village will
follow the demonstration scheme. Returns to
the project can be measured annually through
assessment of accumulation of increased production
(quantitatively) and improved family
welfare (qualitatively).
Long-term objectives include: 1)developing
marketing strategies as productivity
increases and different qualities of animals are
demanded; 2) improving marketing efficiencies
(operational and pricing) as the supply of arm
animals shifts; (3) evaluating market structureconduct-performance
at both rural and urban
markets; and (4) assessing the integrated production
scheme on a larger scale.
Research Methods
Each farmer participant will receive one
ram and eight ewes. Rams to be used in the
VIPS are considered to be prolific animals (highline
and low-line) contributed by t.e SR-CRSP's
breeding project from the breeding station in
Cicadas, West Java. Ewes will be provided from
returned OPP animals and will be distributed at
three delivery times in order to avoid simulta-
one-month neous mating
intervals
since each
according
ewe will
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These lambs are then kept for nine more months
before reaching market age (village data show
optimum holding age for the lambs is 12
months). Therefore, month seventeen is the first
time the project scheme will sell the first genera
tion of offspring. Since the production scheme
is composed of eight different ewes with onemonth
mating intervals, after seventeen months
the production scheme will sell one generation
of offspring each month. For progeny testing
purposes, selection of female lambs reserved for
replacement will be conducted at each generation.
Once selected female lambs are identified,
the ewe will then be replaced.
Training Progress and Institutional
Development
Long-Term
Atien Priyanti. M.S. University of Arkansas,
Agricultural Economics.
M.E. Yusnandar, B.S. degree, Pakuan University,
Bogor. Economics.
Agus Muljadi Natasukarya. Ph.D. University
of the Philippines, Los Banos, Philippines.
Agricultural Economics.
Achmad Hanafiah, Ir/BS. equivalent degree,
Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Pertanian, Tanjungsari.
Agricultural Economics.
Elan Masbulan. Ir/B.S. equivalent degree,
Sekolah Tinggi llmu Pertanian, Tanjungsari.
Agricultural Economics. Completed May 1990.
Publications
Tehical Communications
Abjid, R.M.A. 1990. 'Surveyof Traditional
Medicine Use for Sheep Health Problems by
OPP Farmers in the Bogor District to Java." nest
Working Paper Series #118. SR-CRSP-Balitnak,
Bogor.
Adriana, R.and T.D. Soedjana. 1990. 'The
Roles of Middlemen in Small Ruminant Pricing:
A Case Study in Srogol Village, Cijeruk
Subdistrict, District of Bogor." Working Paper.
(Inpre.)
Bakhtiar, D.M. and T.D. Soedjana. 1990.
"Analysis of Optimum Holding Age for the
Traditional Small Ruminant Keeping: A Case
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