UNAIR NEWS – Raising goats becomes one of the livelihood alternatives for rural communities, including the Alaskokon village local, Modung sub-district, Bangkalan, Madura. There is a livestock group that raise pote goats, a variant of Bangkalan goats.
To improve the cattle’s productivity, UNAIR community service team, led by Prof Suherni Susilowati held a dissemination on Sunday, August 7, 2022. The dissemination was about artificial insemination of goat and it was attended by the livestock group members from Modung sub-district and the surrounding.
Prof Suherni was accompanied by Prof Widya Paramita Lokapirnasari, Prof Budi Utomo, and Dr. Tri Wahyu Suprayogi from UNAIR Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FKH) and Yossy Imam Candika from UNAIR Faculty of Vocational Studies (FV).
The FKH professors conducted dissemination on recognizing a sick goat and treating the cattle with affordable herbs; improving the goat’s productivity through nutritional feeding and artificial insemination; and financial management techniques to improve the economic growth of the farm.
Prof Suherni stated that apart from increasing the goat population, various benefits could be attained from artificial insemination. For instance, goats can breed thrice in a couple of years.
“We don’t have to get the buck here. We just need the sperm of a genetically superior buck,” she said.
Improving economic growth
Prof Suherni further explained that increasing the goat population and livestock’s quality seeds are parts of the UNAIR FKH team’s attempt to improve the economy of goat breeders, particularly the pote goat.
“We introduce, train, and disseminate artificial insemination which has a lot of benefits. Especially to increase the population and benefit of the breeder. For a couple of years, a goat can breed thrice,” she stated.
The team also demonstrated the process of artificial insemination of pote goats to the breeders. Collaborating with the veterinary officers in Bangkalan, drh Chandra demonstrated the artificial insemination on pote goat.
“Through this program, we hope that locals will no longer hesitate in inseminating their goats,” Prof Suherni hoped.
Editor: Binti Q. Masruroh
