Socio-Economic Study of Food Stuff and Herbal Medicine for Free-range Chicken as Efforts to Increase Food Reliability and Edibility

This study examined the strategic roles in
aspects of the food reliability and edibility, which
purpose is to: 1) Find out the potential availability of
organic food stuff and traditional herbal medicines
used for free-range chickens. 2) Find out the
determinants of the availability of organic food stuff
and traditional organic herb used for free-range
chickens. 3) To find out both technical and economic
benefits and health of organic food stuff and organic
herb used for free-range chickens. This study is based
on experimental research and surveys, which were
conducted at the enclosure of closed range of
University of Muhammadiyah Malang in 2015 to
2019. The survey research was conducted in Malang
and Tulungagung to examine the market response to
organic herb products for livestock. The experimental
object used was giant chicken by giving various food
ration treatments and herbal medicines separately
with different times. The herbal medicines used were
saffron, curcumin, and turmeric. The results of this
study show the followings: 1) Production factors of
organic food sources are classified into three: physical
resource, technical and social-cultural farming actors.
2) Herbal medicine is a commodity that must be
developed continually in livestock, especially freerange
chickens, proven by its benefits in health. 3)
Feeding factor and the use of organic herbal medicine
are food components that mutually strengthen the
development of food Edibility.