Profitable agribusiness systems for eastern Indonesia
This subprogram integrates key thematic areas for cooperation (including livestock, horticultural crop production, community forestry and aquaculture) with a geographical focus on eastern Indonesia. On-farm water management for the development of competitive agricultural industries, and improvement of the capacity of eastern Indonesian R&D providers to support marketdriven adaptive research, are two cross-cutting themes. Specific areas of emphasis within eastern Indonesia are:
Crop-ruminant livestock systems
- Understanding of policies to increase Indonesian sufficiency in beef production, including factors affecting adoption of improved forages, off-take of productive cows, improving reproduction rates and market linkages
- Development of sustainable systems that integrate livestock with crops for the dry tropics of eastern Indonesia and smallholder plantation areas
- Enhancement of Bali cattle and goat productivity to meet market specifications through improved management of feed and reproduction
Productive and profitable smallholder estate crops
- Market analysis and development for cashew nut, cocoa, coffee and coconut
- Development of production systems that integrate field crops and livestock into plantation crops
- Management of pests and diseases for cashew nut, cocoa, coconut, coffee and sugarcane
- Market analysis of biofuel production systems, especially of on-farm and small-scale processing of biofuel as an alternative energy source for household needs
Improvement in productivity and profitability of field crop systems in seasonally dry areas
- Development of locally adapted postharvest technology for field crops
- Improvement in uptake of existing technologies (nutrient management, plant varieties, integrated pest management, soil conservation) in rainfed rice systems and development of other components of the rotation
- Market development and the fostering of technology uptake in irrigated rice systems
- Development of more water-efficient maize cropping systems that are better linked to input and output markets
