Sheep Farm Based Startup Business

Lamb meat is the best meat for human consumption. Prophets and Messengers of Allah SWT must have been herdsmen. There are many lessons from the pastoral activity, for more details, you can read here. Increasing consumption of lamb and even become a favorite food is something that is encouraging. A number of satay shops and also offers a number of lamb dishes are always crowded. It is estimated that around 250 satay shops yand processed sheep are scattered throughout Yogyakarta special province, Indonesia. The high interest and consumption of lamb meat will also have an effect on the high supply of sheep needed. Other cities in Indonesia should also follow it. Surely this will be an interesting opportunity, including the pattern of business startup. Even when the supply of sheep increases, the export market is also ready to wait.

In Indonesia, grass cultivation is certainly not difficult, even without planting grass has grown thick and filled our gardens. Unmanaged grass is just annoying and causes problems. But on the other hand, if the growth of grass is well designed and managed so that the sheep grazing area will certainly be a different story. In any livestock industry the feed factor is the highest cost component. If the sheep are managed by herding in the pasture, the cost of feed will be minimized so that the profits are maximized. Rotational grazing is a grazing technique that can maximize these benefits.

In addition to grass which can be regarded as a staple food for the sheep, additional food in the form of supplements is also needed to get the best quality meat. Energy plantation such as the calliandra plantation can support the sheep farm. Leaves from the energy plantation harvest can be used for additional feed. Calliandra leaves with high protein content will be nutritious feed for the sheep. In addition, wood from energy plantations can also be used for the production of charcoal briquette. By using charcoal made from energy plantations wood that means it does not damage the environment such as cutting down forest wood and so on. The quality of charcoal briquette (sawdust charcoal briquette) is also better than ordinary charcoal that is not briquetted, because it is denser, has a uniform size and a longer burning time.

At a large capacity these sheep can also become export commodities. Extensive grasslands and energy plantations can be made for many of these export purposes. Utilization of technology is increasingly needed for such large capacities such as drones to monitor the movement of these sheep. Locations outside of Java and can even be integrated with large plantations have huge potential, for additional information can be read here. Indonesia as the owner of the largest palm oil plantation in the world with an area of ​​12 million hectares has the potential to integrate this sheep farm. Previously we have also heard that cattle farming has been integrated in a number of oil palm plantations, for more details, please read here. In addition to the sheep which will become an export commodity as well as sawdust charcoal briquette from the energy plantations.

Lamb satay in packaging

The sheep-based startup business will encourage improving the quality of our food and at the same time improving the environment. And so that various regions can also easily get the supply of lamb meat, lamb meat can also be packaged in the form of ready satay, so it is also easy if you want to consume lamb satay every day. At the time of Eid al-Adha, this business startup also supports the provision of sacrificial animals, as part of upholding Islamic law (QS. Al-Kautsar: 2; QS. Al-Hajj: 34) which will continue to exist until the Day of Judgment. Even sheep is permitted for qurban animals that are still six months old, entering seven months old (jadza'ah) while other qurban animals are eligible if they are at least one year old or more (mussinnah) such as goats are tsany (one year old, enter second year ), two-year-old cattle, entering the third year and camel five years, entering the sixth year. Furthermore also the need for halal food is an absolute necessity for all Muslims so running a business for the fulfillment of halal food should also be the domain of Muslims as well as the business of Umrah and Hajj to halal tourism. Moreover, there are many verses in the Qur'an concerning the superiority of sheep over other livestock, for more details, please read here. Let us be part of the world's food and environmental solutions and uphold the Shari'a of Allah SWT.

Startup Business Based on Energy Plantation

Startup business is a trend today and not a few, especially young people who are very interested in this business pattern. Information technology in the form of the internet has made it easier to run the startup business. Today we can see that with this startup pattern a number of large companies have existed and stood by selling their products and services. Innovative products that can provide accurate solutions to the various problems that make the company exist and continue develop. But it turns out that running and developing a startup business is also not easy and without obstacles. The fact is that up to now the possibility of startups appearing and being able to survive is only 8%, meaning that out of 100 startups, only 8 startups can last until the second year. Even if it is counted until the fifth year, only 2 startups can survive. But the fact above is not an obstacle so that it decreases the enthusiasm to continue pursuing the  startup business. On the contrary, it becomes an encouragement about the need for knowledge and sufficient provision to even improve the condition.

Similar to business in general, a startup business will always be able to survive and develop if it continues to be needed by consumers. There are a number of fundamental commodities that will always continue to be needed including food and energy. Food and energy needs are always directly proportional to the human population. Renewable energy, especially biomass-based, which is also one of the focuses of this blog, has bright prospects in the future. Energy plantations can be the basis for a startup business. Energy plantations beside having great benefits for the environment, they also have economic and social benefits. In addition to the fact that there is currently no energy plantation implementation that has yet to work professionally, it needs acceleration. In the early stages of startup, it can focus on commodities that are easy and needed by the market, such as the scheme below.

Startup Business Based on Energy Plantation Phase I

Energy plantations have a number of outputs that can be commercialized or sold, namely wood for wood pellets, leaves for animal feed and flowers for honey production. A number of outputs or yields will clearly maximize the benefits of the energy plantation. The extent of idle land, critical land and a number of unproductive land that reaches tens of millions of hectares is a challenge for the implementation of the energy plantation. The more land is utilized and the higher the level of profits obtained, of course, the more investors invest in this sector. The meat self-sufficiency program from domestic production is also increasingly helped and can be accelerated by forage from the leaves of the energy plantation. The energy plantations use plants such as leguminoceae (legumes) such as calliandra and gliricidae, with roots that are symbiotic with azetobacter microorganism so that it can bind nitrogen from the atmosphere making the leaves rich in protein to become nutritious feed for livestock.

Startup Business Based on Energy Plantation Phase II

In stage 2 such a scheme above the benefits can be further increased. This is because the company does not only produce raw materials used by other industries but furthermore, that is, produce finished products that are ready for consumption. Even so the length of the chain of production processes indeed makes the responsibility of producers increasingly large and complex. Startup businesses that have experienced or have surpassed phase 1 schemes will usually find it easier to run phase 2. The market for this stage is also mostly for exports because up to now the domestic market is not ready, for example wood pellets for fueling fluidized bed technology combustion. PKS (palm kernel shell) are now widely used for the power plant, and because availability is also limited it will be very possible in the future era of wood pellets from the energy plantation as a replacement.

The market for biomass fuels, especially PKS and wood pellets is very open especially in the export market. Japan and Korea are the biggest consumers of biomass fuels today for the Asian region, for more details about the characteristics of the Japanese and Korean markets can be read here. Whereas Europe with the RED program (Renewable Energy Directive) II in 2030 targets that almost 1/3 of energy consumption derived from renewable energy with biomass fuel gets a portion of 80%. The amount is certainly very large, with the current conditions Europe still needs around 5 million tons of wood pellets even though RED I, which applies until 2020, only targets 20 percent of energy consumption from renewable energy and biomass to get a portion of 80 percent.