Livestock is a sub-sector that has a strategic role in economic life and the development of Indonesia’s human resources. The strategic role can be seen from the function of livestock products as a provider of animal protein which is important for the growth and development of the human body. Demand for livestock products now and in the future tends to increase. This is due to the increasing public understanding of the consumption of animal protein from livestock. One potential source of protein to be developed is from local livestock. Local livestock will improve the welfare of farmers when professionally developed.
The need for an international seminar with the theme “Sustainability Animal Agriculture Production for Green Tropical environment” will have an impact on increasing understanding of the importance of Indonesian local livestock to be introduced internationally as the Indonesian nation’s wealth that is not inferior to livestock in general. Furthermore, the livestock sub-sector can be used as a driving force for regional and national economies. So that it will improve the welfare of Indonesian breeders in particular and in the international world in general.
Indonesia has 58 types of local livestock that are potential to be developed and introduced into the international world. Various types of local livestock that still exist today include Kacang goats, Garut sheep, Bali cattle, Madura cattle, Belang buffalo, Mojokerto ducks, Gagak chickens, Bekisar chickens, Sumbawa horses and others, all of which have not been widely exposed in the international world.
The Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Hasanuddin as one of the stakeholders in the livestock business strives to contribute in developing wise and wise technology. Through an international seminar trying to summarize good technological development in the form of indigenous technology, local wisdom and animal welfare and the latest technology into a potpourri of technology that is able to maintain the sustainability of human life.
The output of the 1st International Conference of Animal Science and Technology November 6 – 7, 2018, has been published in the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) Volume 247, and for The 2nd International Conference of Animal Science and Technology will also be published by the same publisher.