PROJECT NO.
170
Project Title
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Optimising crop-livestock systems in West Nusa Tenggara
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Project Leader
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Andrew Ash |
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Organisation |
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems |
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APSRU
Representative |
Peter Carberry |
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Funding
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ACIAR |
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Administration
Contact |
Allan Kearns CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems GPO Box 284 Canberra ACT 2601 Ph:
02 6242 1783 Fax:
02 6242 1742 Email: allen.kearns@csiro.au |
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Commencement
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1 April 2001 |
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Completion
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31 December 2003 |
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Research
Proposal Summary |
Integration of profitable livestock enterprises
within smallholder farming systems in the eastern islands of Indonesia is
particularly challenging because of the long, dry season and large
inter-annual rainfall variability. Traditionally, the priority farming activity
in these environments has been food crop production and livestock have
largely been kept as a form of accumulated wealth with little emphasis placed
on their productivity. The nutrition of these livestock is usually poor
during the long dry season as forages are often in short supply, particularly
where there are no local grazing lands, and the available feed quality is
generally low. Efforts to intensifying
livestock enterprises should not be addressed in a component way in isolation
from the overall farming system operating in these villages. This is because
efforts to increase forage resources in association with cropping lands will
undoubtedly have impacts on the cropping component of the system,
particularly in semi-arid environments. Such trade-offs between the cropping
and livestock components of the system can most effectively be explored by
adopting an integrated systems approach. Simulation modelling, based on good
and specifically targeted component research, has been shown to provide a more
comprehensive analysis of options that takes better account of climatic
constraints. |
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Aims |
This project aims to develop a
systems analysis approach to smallholder cropping-livestock systems. This
approach is most effective when conducted in a participative way with
farmers. The project will work with farmers in Sumbawa, which is typical of
the more difficult semi-arid regions of eastern Indonesia. An important
socio-economic feature of Sumbawa is that many of the farmers have only been
living there for about a decade, having shifted as part of a government
sponsored trans-migration program from the wetter and more reliable rainfall
areas of Lombok and Bali. They have not yet built up a full understanding of
the limitations and potential of their farming environment that is
traditionally acquired through years of experience. The systems analysis
approach proposed in this project will help overcome some of this
inexperience by providing tools to explore a wider range of forage-crop
options and trade-offs than have been tested by farmers or researchers. |
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Potential
Outcomes |
The project will produce
information that can be immediately applied by smallholder farmers in the
region in assisting them to achieve intensification of their livestock
enterprise in a way which integrates
with their of cropping systems. The systems analysis framework that will be
developed by the project will have much broader application than the
immediate project, including smallholder farmers in other semi-arid regions
and semi-arid farming-livestock systems in northern Australia. In addition,
the systems models used in this project should also be useful for identifying
gaps in knowledge that, in other areas, has led to new and more relevant
field research programs. This project aims to develop feasible and
sustainable forage resource options to improve livestock production in
Sumbawa by exploring the whole crop-livestock production system. The project
will produce information that can be immediately applied to smallholder
farmers in the region to achieve this aim. The modelling framework that will
be developed by the project will have much broader application than the
immediate project, including smallholder farmers in other semi-arid regions
and semi-arid farming-livestock systems in northern Australia. In addition,
the modelling approach used in this project should also be useful for
identifying gaps in knowledge that, in other areas, has led to new and more
relevant field research programs. |
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Milestones |
Report
on all inputs for use in estimating model parameters Yr 3 m 1 Detailed
socio-economic description of households Yr 2 m 6 Annual
report on farm inputs, state, and outputs. Yr 3, m 1; Yr 4, m 1 Functioning
livestock model. Yr 2, m 12. Preliminary,
functioning models for principal crops and forages. Yr 3, m Models
validated to extent data allows. Yr
4, m 2. Set of
scenarios to be simulated and evaluated.
Yr 3, m 12 Report
on simulation results Yr 4, m 6 Report
on economic returns and risks of farming scenarios Yr 4, m 6 Detailed
study plan and schedule agreed to by all collaborators. Yr 1, m 1. Workshops
completed. Yr 2, m4; Yr 2, m 9; Yr 3, m 9; Yr 4, m 5 Implementation
of data collection in systematic fashion, in accordance with study plan. Yr 1 m 2. Report on attitudes and
perceptions and changes of life of project Yr 4, m 6. |
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Budget |
(a) Estimated Expenditure YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4 TOTAL (01/04/01- 30/06/01) (01/07/01-30/06/02) (01/07/02-30/06/03) (01/07/03-31/12/03) Personnel 92,433 95,633 39,229 227,295 Supplies and Services 17,120 8,980 6,980 3,240 36,320 Travel 13,795 45,650 37,935 13,470 110,850 Infrastructure Costs 767 1,581 1,574 3,921 Capital Items 14,000 8,000 22,000 Total 45,682 156,644 142,121 55,939 400,386 Of which development expenditure
(This is part of, not
additional, to the above figures) (b) Other Support directly related with this project (i) From Commissioned 22,933 120,802 126,616 62,662 333,013 Organisation (ii) From Australian Collaborators (iii) From Developing Country Partner (iv) From Others |
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Resource
Requirements &
Contributions |
Institution Person/gender Position/location % time in
project Source of
funding CSIRO APSIM Help Desk staff Simulation model support Toowoomba 10 100% CSIRO CSIRO Dr. M. Robertson (M) Crop Modeller Brisbane 5 100% ACIAR CSIRO Mr. N. Dalgleish (M) Field support (Crops) Toowoomba 5 100% ACIAR CSIRO Mr. N. MacLeod (M) Socio-economic analyst Brisbane 10 100% ACIAR IPPTP Mataram Dr. Ir. H. Sembiring (M) Project Leader IPPTP Director 10 100% IPPTP IPPTP Mataram Mr. Ir. A. Muzani (M) Project Coordinator Animal production scientist 20 100% IPPTP IPPTP Mataram Mr. L. Wirajaswadi (M) Crop extension officer 20 100% IPPTP IPPTP TBA Socio-economist 20 100% IPPTP IPPTP Sumbawa New appointee Field technician Sumbawa 100 100% ACIAR University of Mataram Dr. Ir. Y. Sutaryono Forages scientist 10 100% University of Mataram Institution Person/gender Position/location % time in
project Source of
funding CSIRO Dr. A. Ash (M) Project Leader Townsville 15 100% CSIRO CSIRO Dr. J. Gross (M) Livestock modeller Townsville 15 100% CSIRO CSIRO New Appointee Systems analyst/Programmer Townsville | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||