ABSTRACT
The native chickens farming activities in Tomohon could support a provision of quality food continuously to the community, especially during the current covid-19 pandemic, but on the other hand various obstacles are still faced by small-scale farmers related to purchase price of feed and its availability. The empowerment of insects in animal feed could be an alternative solution. Based on this condition, a survey has been conducted in Tomohon City area which aimed to find out to what extent the using of insects as alternative feed applied in their livestock. This survey was conducted on thirty respondents in this area. Descriptive statistics were used in processing and presentation of data obtained in this survey. The responses of the respondent farmers were recorded in several points of view: time of experience in rearing chickens;experience in finding feed ingredients;farmer recognition on role of insect as animal feed;willingness to acquire skill improvement training. Concerning the time of experience in rearing chickens the most of respondents (70%) have an experience more than one year, 23% were between 6 months to one year, while the experience in finding feed ingredients: 47% of respondents (A1) informed easy to get it and 40% of respondent (A2) told that the ingredients were quite easy to get but the price increased. The farmer's recognition on role of insect as animal feed: 24% mentioned the insects in order of orthoptera, 21.2% described isoptera, 16,3% coleoptera, and then 14.4% informed the insects in diptera order as chicken feed. The respondents showed a different willingness to acquire training to improve their skill to use insect as alternative feed: 70% desired and 30% didn't thought the same thing. We concluded that the native chicken cultivation became interesting activities by the respondents in Tomohon to contribute the food, which is needed to improve their skill to use insect as alternative ingredient for their livestock chicken production improvement especially in the covid-19 situation.
ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 pandemic period has spread across almost all countries in the world has resulted a significant negative impact on various socio-economic aspects, including on large-scale and small-scale livestock business activities. This paper aims to present a study of challenges in developing small-scale farms carried out at grassroots level communities affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in North Sulawesi Indonesia. The method used in this study was a meta-analysis pattern approach. The cases of covid-19 infection in this area began to emerge early on March of this year, where data until early May 2020 showed a number of people who were confirmed positive Covid-19 had reached 45 people. The government as an authority holder in North Sulawesi Province does not apply yet a lockdown. This temporary policy gives farmers the opportunity to move and continue developing their livestock activities in order to support the fulfillment of livestock products in local market, while on the other hand, feed row material tended to increase in the market. The recommendation to keep a physical distance did not significantly affect the activities to the small-scale animal farms because in general the workers were family who were the same people in a household.