Cattle fattening is one of the flagship CSR programs of EEES, as well as being an effort to empower the poor. This program is also expected to support the Household Biogas program and the use of organic fertilizer from waste (biogas slurry).
This cattle fattening assistance is intended for livestock groups, each consisting of 6 people, which are located around the UPPO (Organic Fertilizer Processing Unit) area which was previously built by EEES in 2016. Each group is given six bulls for eight million rupiah. with a gumba height of 102cm and about two years old whose health has been checked by a designated veterinarian.
The cattle are then intensively fattened according to the fattening instructions from the program assistant, so that they achieve a body weight gain of around 0.5 kilograms per day. As for members of the livestock group, 50% are from underprivileged residents who are registered in the poverty data of the Wajo Regency Social Service.
The interesting thing about this program is the sustainability aspect it carries. That is, after the cows have been fattened for six months, they will be sold at the lowest estimated price of IDR 12 million. Each time they make a sale, the group will set aside eight million from the sale, so that in 6 sales (3 years) IDR 48 million will be collected. The funds collected are used to roll over to the next group. With this pattern, there will be a continuity of programs that will empower the entire community.
From the environmental aspect, apart from being an empowerment activity for the fattening program, it is also expected to have a very useful by-product, namely bioslurry organic fertilizer. The advantage of fattening cattle is that the cows are fattened in pens so that the manure is easily collected to be put in the biogas reactor. The dregs from this biogas will later be collected and fermented in the previously prepared UPPO.
Apart from obtaining economic benefits from cattle farming, residents can also produce their own organic fertilizer which is healthy and environmentally friendly and can be used on the residents’ agricultural lands. The empowerment pattern carried out by EEES is expected to become a pilot project by other business actors in Wajo Regency to support one of the big dreams of the district government, namely to make Wajo Regency not only a rice barn, but a meat barn in South Sulawesi. One of them is by duplicating programs through village funds and or CSR programs from other companies. (*)
