KETAHANAN PAKAN UNGGAS DI TENGAH KRISIS PANGAN

Abstract

Fodder is one of the important things in poultry industry. The extreme raise of the fodder price during the monetary crisis in Indonesia in 1997 caused degradation in poultry industry. The condition of fodder crisis which did not yet completely get better was made even worse by two other crises; they are the crisis of from-fossil oil energy and the crisis of food supply. Indonesia also faced a disadvantageous situation because of the crisis of oil energy and the global food crisis. Fodder crisis occurs when the must-allocated food is not available, therefore the food crisis will always be followed fodder crisis. Solution toward birds fodder crisis must be comprehensive and involve many parties, such as government, entrepreneurs, society, and academicians.
Government plays important role as a regulator and stabilizer to the business of birds fodder ingredients. Entrepreneurs work as investor and big-scale operator. Society especially the farmers, poultry breeders and traditional fishermen have important role as the small-scale supplier with bright potency to gain big-scale production. Meanwhile, the academicians may share their role by solving the fodder problems trough education, workshop, research, and implementation of the field.