Director General of Animal Husbandry and Animal Health of the Agriculture Ministry Syukur Iwantoro said here on Monday that the figure of estimated need was made by taking into account the population growth of 1.49 percent and economic growth of 6.60 percent.
Other factors taken into account included meat elasticity of 1.2 and the estimate of meat need during national and religious holiday celebrations which put it at 1.984 kg per capita.
In order to meet the need, the government has set a target of livestock supplies in 2012, namely 2,678,758 head of slaughter cows, 21,641 milch cows, 347,613 buffaloes or in total reaching 3,048,012 head.
He said that livestock supplies in 2012 increased from that in 2011 which stood at 2,942,080 head which consisted of 2,517,628 slaughter cows, 44,842 milch cows and 379,610 buffaloes.
The national meat consumption in 2011, he said, reached 449 thousand tons of which 292 thousand tons were met domestically while 156 thousand tons by imports.
For the meat need in 2012, it would be met by 399 thousand tons of local cows, 84 thousand tons by imports, he said.
(Uu.A014/HAJM/S012)
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