HOUSEHOLD PROFILES OF BEEF CATTLE LIVESTOCK IN THE AREA OF TEAK FOREST, BOJONEGORO, EAST JAVA

The study was conducted in Napis Village, Tambakrejo District, Bojonegoro Regency with the aim of expressing an empirical profile of the indicators of the empowerment of smallholder beef cattle farmers using sustainable livelihoods framework tools. Data collection method used in this study is by interviewing respondents directly. The type of data used in this study are primary and secondary data and analyzed with descriptive analysis. The analysis shows that the majority of farmer households (45%) maintain 2 to 3 Animal Units (ST). the majority of breeders education level only graduated elementary school / equivalent of 41.5% and the average experience of raising beef cattle for 8 years. The maro working relationship (33%) is adopted by farmers, besides raising a cow of their own (27.5%). Most (32.5%) of farmers households control an area of between 600-1000 m2. From the research it can be concluded that the sustainable livelihoods of the household of beef cattle farmers is not enough to be stated only by indicators of livelihoods-status consisting of 5 types of capital, namely: (1) Human Capital, (2) Natural Capital, (3) Financial Capital, (4) Physical Capital, and (5) Social Capital only, but it also needs to include the farmer household resilience component and the farmer household dynamism component.