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Indonesia Livestock
Smallholders, who owned nearly all of the livestock in
the
country, used their animals for draft power, manure, meat,
and for
future sale. Most livestock, including some 16 million
goats and
sheep, were simply tethered near the home or put out to
pasture on
communal grazing land. Beef cattle numbered over 10
million in
1989. The water buffalo, the most common draft animal,
numbered 3.3
million. Several government-sponsored programs to increase
livestock productivity through better extension services
to
livestock farmers and the expansion of ranching were in
operation
on the Outer Islands in the early 1990s. Since 1978 the
government
provided technical assistance to poultry farmers,
particularly in
or near urban areas. The government also made great
efforts to
improve the dissemination of superior breeds and modern
medicines.
Chickens were the fastest growing commercial livestock,
numbering
508 million in 1989, an increase of 65 percent since 1984.
Data as of November 1992
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