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Field Schools Turn Farmers into Cattle Breeders

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WINARTO HERUSANSONO
· 5 minutes read
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Members of the Sido Mukti Farmers Group join a field visit on Thursday (7/9) to observe corn husks being shredded at a cattle farm in Ngaringan village of Ngaringan district, Grobogan, Central Java. The district’s agricultural extension is providing field schools to help farmers and laborers acquire new skills in husbandry, including making fermented cow feed from crop residues after harvesting corn. The shredder, which costs Rp 5 million-Rp10 million, makes it easier to process corn husks, corn stalks and corncobs into raw ingredients for making fermented cow feed.

After decades of living under the poverty line as farm laborers, the people of Ngaringan village in Grobogan district, Central Java, are changing their profession are trying to pick themselves up.

They decided raising cattle would be the means by which they could change their fates. For them, breeding cattle is like making savings to support their families, and the best way to move forward.

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