Students of Department of Animal Production and Technology Science
Faculty of Animal Science
Bogor Agricultural University
Farms can be interpreted as one form of animal protein fulfillment of society. Every country has the characteristics of livestock that need to be developed as an effort to increase the independence of national food product. Farm animals in Indonesia now is a lot traded on a large scale. However, the negative effects of this trade is breeding germplasm in Indonesia will be reduced. Therefore, protection of live stock germplasm in indonesia is very necessary because in order to preserve the local farm animal species, in addition to the local farm products can also be used as one form of food self-sufficiency. Solutions that can be done is the establishment of an institutional system that leads the national level concerning the protection of local cattle Indonesia. At the institutional system will be established also a special artificial insemination centers local livestock Indonesia who are spread in various regions that have the potential of local livestock. Hall insemination would lead to two goals of preserving germplasm of local live stock and also establish a functioning independent live stock farming to meet the needs of local food products. Therefore, if a country can meet the needs of local livestock, then the result of obtained will reduce or stop the import of livestock from other countries.
Keywords : Germplasm, Local livestock, food self-sufficiency
