Community Understanding of Sustainable Communal Cattleshed Management

Abstract

The management of beef cattle in Indonesia is still managed individually by farmers. This condition causes low awareness of farmers to manage livestock waste because it is considered not to be of economic value. Managing livestock for production and handling waste is more efficient when using a communal enclosure system. Hence the purpose of this study is to analyze community understanding of sustainable communal cattle shed management. This study generally uses a quantitative approach. The research method used is a mixture (mix method) of quantitative and qualitative methods. The research data were analyzed by descriptive statistical analysis procedures and using SPSS 19.0 software. The relationship of community behavior with an understanding of sustainable communal cattle-shed was tested using Kendall’s Tau correlation. Based on the results of the analysis of the relationship and the influence and conditions in the field, all variables observed had a significant relationship, had a significant and direct effect on community understanding of communal cattleshed management.