Challenges and Opportunities in Family Sheep Farming Succession: Insights from Participatory Systems Analysis in Garut, Indonesia
Challenges and Opportunities in Family Sheep Farming Succession: Insights from Participatory Systems Analysis in Garut, Indonesia
Achmad Firman1*, Lilis Nurlina1, Diky Ramdani2, Yayan Rismayanti2
ABSTRACT
Succession issues in family farming have been a global concern since the 1990s. Changes in economic structure have encouraged young farmers to refrain from participating in family farms, including family sheep farms in Garut district, West Java Province, Indonesia. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the factors that influence young farmers to continue or not to continue family sheep farming. These factors were determined using Focus Group Discussions (FGD) through Participatory System Analysis (PSA). The results showed that the factors influencing the decision of young farmers to continue family sheep farming are a hobby, hereditary business, profitable business, sheep as savings, sheep agility competition, environmental support, side business, and utilization of family labor. The eight factors are spread across three quadrants: symptom, critical element, and buffer. Factors influencing young farmers not to continue family sheep farming are not a hobby, preferring to work outside the farm, limited fodder forage, farmers lose but traders gain, lack of sheep farming skills, limited land and capital, no parental support, farming is not a prestigious profession and uncertain income. The nine are spread into two quadrants, namely symptom, and critical elements. Therefore, the local government continues to maintain the continuity of livestock contests and agility fights of Garut sheep. These events are proven to encourage farmers to keep raising sheep, including the next generation.
Keywords | Succession, Sheep farms, Young farmer, Family farms, Participatory system analysis
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