Meat Demand

Beef demand in Indonesia tends to increase, in line with the increase of population and increasing prosperity. According Bhari, S.dkk (2000), most consumers of beef is the upper-middle economic class and income elasticity of demand for beef is relatively very high. Substitution product is quite a lot, including chicken and fish, hence the high price of meat will not cause social upheaval, it will stimulate the development of domestic industries. This excellent opportunity, if not utilized by the domestic manufacturers, it will encourage imports which eventually will drain foreign exchange. It is in the long run will have an impact on our dependence on foreign products and will automatically inhibit the opportunity to create jobs in the beef cattle industry in the countryside.Problems reproduktivitas local cattle including Bali cattle require a solution which has always been a decline in population in some provinces. This is attributed by the rate cuts, beef cattle that exceed the rate of population growth, this decline is also due to the low ability reproduktivitas embryonic stem which includes death, death before birth, and death before weaning. Therefore, the handling of the parent also needs to be anticipated either by improving the quality of feed for pregnant and through the addition of concentrates as well as efforts to increase the number of children perkelahiran ie with superovulation treatment, which is a technique for producing many oocyt by accelerating pamatangannya become ova and can diovulasikan at once in the corpus luteum. This increase could improve prenatal growth during pregnancy, increasing concentrations of the hormones estrogen and progesterone and increased enzyme activity sintatese lactose and milk production (Manalu et al, 1996, Manalu, 1999, Frimawaty and Menalu, 1999).Based on the above then the UPT Perbibitan Livestock Metro City trying to improve the quality and quantity of cattle through Artificial Insemination (AI) and device technology.