POTENSI PENGEMBANGAN TERNAK SAPI POTONG DI KECAMATAN KATINGAN TENGAH KABUPATEN KATINGAN, KALIMANTAN TENGAH

Cattles are big ruminant livestock most widely farmed and have prospective livestock to be developed in Indonesia. This study was conducted to describe characteristics of beef cattle farmer, to predict potential development cattle agribusiness, and to determine center of development cattle agribusiness in central Katingan sub-district. Characteristics of beef cattle farmer were analyzed bydescriptive statistics. Potential development cattle business was measured by Capacity of additional ruminant population (CARP). Potential villages as center of development cattle agribusiness was determined by location quotient (LQ) analysis. The result concludes that beef cattle farmers at central Katingan sub-district had experienced, productive age, fair labor force at the family, and most well educated. Beef cattle Agribusiness had done semi intensive at central Katingan sub-district. The number of livestock can be added about 407.34 livestock unit/LU (equivalent to 234.64 LU of beef cattle) at central Katingan. Potential beef cattle Agribusiness basis at central Katingan sub-district i.e. Petak Puti, Tewang Panjang, and Telok where their LQ (effective CARP) values were 10.86(38.76); 6.36 (70.33); and 1.24 (126.02), respectively. An optimally utilization of land resources management and crop-livestock systems development were applied to increase the number of beef cattle agribusiness.