An alternative policy of livestock farmers’ empowerment towards environmental vision

Livestock is one out of five agricultural sub-sectors. The livestock farmers in South Bangka face the difficulty in ensuring the availability of skilled manpower in livestock farming. The objective of the study is to understand the socio-economic of livestock farmers and to analyse the alternative policy related to the environmental vision through livestock farmers’ empowerment. A qualitative descriptive approach was used to analyse the data using SWOT analysis in determining the alternative policy on the livestock farmers’ empowerment in visioning the sustainable environment. The study discovered that although multi-ethnic society remained, the horizontal conflict was never revealed. The majority of livestock farmers were at low socio-economic status households. It suggested that the policymaker should design the livestock farmers’ empowerment towards the environmental vision by providing environmentally friendly livestock production. The program can vary such as modernizing the livestock breeding system, increasing the added value, creating ecotourism in grassland conservation, and forming the ecotourism guide.