The Influence of Environmental Sustainability on Smallholder Farm Income Through Good Dairy Farming Practices at Malang Raya Indonesia Hari Dwi Utami, Lilik Eka Radiyati, Jaisy Aghniarahim Putritamara, Basya Hayun Nadyawati, and Prima Setyo Wiyono
Faculty of Animal Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia
Abstract
Good Dairy Farming Practices (GDFP) have addressed to ensure the production of safe and high-quality milk from healthy animals through practices that are sustainable in terms of animal welfare, social, economic, and environmental aspects. Research was executed in Kemiri Village, Jabung Sub-district, Malang Regency, with the objective of analysing the implementation of GDFP from an environmental perspective and its relation to the economic return of smallholder dairy farming. The 80 respondents were selected by multistage sampling with purposive sampling method and they were members of the ^KUBE PSP Maju Mapan group^. The respondents were grouped into two scales: scale I (having 1- 6.37 Animal unit) and scale II (having 6.38 - 13.75 animal unit). Data were analysed by descriptive and multiple regression techniques. Results have found that first, dairy farmers were generally of productive age, predominantly male, with elementary education and 10-18 years of farming experience forage planting. Second, the farm scale-1, the use of forage and water efficiently, applying reduce, reuse and recycle farm waste as well as ensure appropriateness in overall operational dairy farming together has generated the farm income. The farm scale-1I, proper operational management enhanced farming income, although waste recycling practices were found to decrease farm returns. It is recommended that smallholder farmers improve the reuse, reduce and recycle (3R) of by-products from dairy farming operations to enhance both environmental sustainability and economic benefits.
