Role of Livestock to Improve the Economy of Sota Border Community Based on Environment

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10.2991/icst-18.2018.129How to use a DOI?

Keywords

livestock; economy; local people border

Abstract

Sota communities mostly depend on local agricultural income. The purpose of this research is to know the role of business in the field of livestock to social level (welfare) in Sota District community in environmentally border area. The method used is a survey using questionnaires to 90 respondents selected by purposive random sampling on people who work as farmers and breeders. Primary and secondary data were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that the characteristics of livestock farmers belong to the age of productive, and experienced in the field of animal husbandry business. Average income of chicken breeders 156.000 IDR per month, besides the type of chicken farming business is highest in cultivated by local people tribe "Kanume". Various factors of constraints in livestock business in the border region is an environmental factor that gives the effect of lowering the interest of raising chickens due to the emergence of the type of disease. But in general livestock business has a positive impact to improve the economy of border communities.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nurcholis Nurcholis
AU  - Lilik Surmaryanti
AU  - Dirwan Muchlis
AU  - Syetiel Maya Salamony
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Role of Livestock to Improve the Economy of Sota Border Community Based on Environment
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Technology (ICST 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 630
EP  - 632
SN  - 2589-4943
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icst-18.2018.129
DO  - 10.2991/icst-18.2018.129
ID  - Nurcholis2018/12
ER  -