Implication of cattle breeding policy in adopted artificial insemination innovation on slaughter cattle’s farmers

Abstract

The general objective of the research is to describe and analyze the implementation and rate of adopted artificial insemination (AI) innovation on slaughter cattle’s farmers. The result showed that the internal, external and bussiness farm characteristic of slaughter cattle’s farmers and their perception on AI were signifcantly different among the locations of the research. The average of AI implementation by the farmers was 51.1%. There were significant different of average implementation of AI aspects among all locations. The average of the rate of AI adoption was 2.39 years. There are significant different between locations where the cross breeding policy have been applied (Lamongan and Bangkalan districts) and the location where the pure breeding policy have been applied (Tabanan district). In adoption of AI, the farmers in the Tabanan district were relatively faster than other districts. Based on the result of structural equation modelling analysis, the relationship among variables were (1) the variables of internal characteristic of slaughter cattle’s farmers and their perception to AI significantly influenced to the implementation of AI, but the variables of external and farm bussiness characteristic of slaughter cattle’s farmers did not significantly influence to the implementation of AI. The variable of the perception of the farmer to AI contributed to the implementation of AI relatively bigger than the internal characteristic of slaughter cattle’s farmers variable; (2) the variables of internal, external and farm bussiness characteristic of slaughter cattle’s farmers and their perception to AI significantly influenced to the rate of AI adoption. The most influence variable to the rate of AI adoption was the external characteristic of slaughter cattle’s farmers; (3) the perception of slaughter cattle’s farmers on AI influenced both to the implementation of AI and to the rate of AI adoption; (4) cumulatively, the influence of the internal, external, farm bussiness characteristics of slaughter cattle’s farmers and their perception to AI implementation aspects and to the rate of AI adoption was 0.51 (51%) and 0,86 (86%) respectively. The implementation of AI as an instrument to achieve breeding policy’s purposes on slaughter cattle did not give yield yet as it was hoped. This case was caused by the breeding policy on slaughter cattle still have not clear and the implementation of the AI in the field have not been controlled.