Comparative Study Of Livestock Appearance And Beef Cattle Breeder Income In Aek Kuo District Of North Labuhanbatu Regency

Beef cattle farming in Aek Kuo District, North Labuhanbatu Regency, North Sumatra Province is traditionally managed in an intensive and semi-intensive system. This study aimed to determine differences in the appearance of cattle and the income of beef cattle breeders using intensive and semi-intensive maintenance systems. The number of respondents used in this study were 30 breederss with livestock ownership of at least two heads of beef cattle and had been running a livestock business for at least two years. The methods used are site surveys and interviews based on questionnaires. The analysis used in this study was followed by a significant partial test (T-test) assisted by the SPSS version 25 program. The results showed an increase in the intensive population rate of 42.37% and semi-intensive 24.60%, intensive calf crop of 73% and semi-intensive 40%, calving interval intensive 17.52 months and semi-intensive 20.03 months, intensive mortality 0.4 % and semi-intensive 4%. In contrast, the income of beef cattle is IDR 11,816,617.00/year/breeder, and semi-intensive IDR 4,891,733.00/year/breeder with a comparison of the R/C Ratio of an intensive system of 1.8 and a semi-intensive system of 1.5. The partial significance test (T-test) results showed that the performance and income of farmers who used intensive rearing systems had higher values ​​and were significantly different compared to farmers who used semi-intensive rearing systems