Sustainable design of oil palm-beef cattle integration in Pelalawan Regency Riau Indonesia

Pelalawan regency in Riau has wide oil palm plantation with area 334.603 hectare in 2012 which it is potential for developing oil palm livestock integration system. High rate of beef cattle population growth 21.5% still had not enough to meet meat consumption of people in Pelalawan Regency (BPS Kab. Pelalawan, 2012). Oil palm plantation in Pelalawan regency supply a lot of feed ingredient such as oil palm frond (OPF) and leaf, forage cover crops and some waste from oil palm processing. There are some problems in oil palm-beef cattle integration. Beef cattle production in oil palm plantation suspected of giving negative effect on oil palm product because of decline in oil palm productivity. This review give a solution with sustainable design of the integration. Sustainable design for oil palm-beef cattle integration related to all aspect for production include controlled grazing, feed supplement biotechnology, health and reproduction management, oil palm plant management, fertilizer management, weed land controlling and oil palm harvest management. Sustainable design of the integration could be analyzed by SWOT analysis to a comprehensive solution for some problem which was caused by integration and to get an optimum advantage from potential of the integration. In conclusion, sustainable design would be able to maintaine the integration system continously.