Modeling of Chicken Production for Food Security in Indonesia Indonesian food security for chicken production as staple protein foods is essential for ensuring the availability to be consumed by toddlers, teenagers, and adults. Ensuring a good price to farmers and a stable of chicken food for the customers also should be achieved. Chicken (meat and eggs) food is most consumed than beef food in Indonesia. Hence, this paper develops a modeling of chicken production for Indonesian protein food security to capture the causality between variables in corn supply, feed mill plant, chicken production, and customer demand system. Modeling of chicken production using Geographic Information System (GIS) approach and developing of system dynamics model are used in this study. The findings of this study suggests that corn productivity, feed mill production, fodder consumption for chicken, and chicken meat and eggs demand and stock as well are critical variables within the model.

Agricultural robotics research applicable to poultry production: A review Abstract   The advent of agricultural robotics research worldwide has brought substantial improvement for various applications. This article provides a comprehensive review of published research and development work, emphasizing robotics enabling machine capabilities. These machine capabilities of perception, reasoning and learning, communication, task planning and execution, and systems integration have opened possibilities for intelligent automation of current and future agricultural operations, including precision livestock farming. We have focused on the Agricultural Intelligent Automation Systems which have a high potential to be applied to agricultural production and processing, especially with applicability to poultry production. Most of the published work on agricultural robotics has been in the areas of perception and reasoning. The emphases have been in the identification of objects, evaluation of product quality, monitoring of plant and animal growth and development, yield prediction, and machine guidance. There has been limited published work on the task execution and systems integration aspects of agricultural robotics. Moreover, we have reviewed agricultural robotics research from 24 universities worldwide. Agricultural robots can be divided into three categories (monitor, harvester, and both) according to various functions. Several tables are presented to summarize the information on the key subject areas reviewed in this article. We have found that there are still many challenges that need to be addressed in robotizing agricultural tasks in general and in poultry production specifically. The most common challenges in robotics applications have been developing robots for specific agricultural tasks. Examples in poultry production include monitoring environmental conditions and chicken health, egg picking, and encouraging chicken movement. The approaches to addressing the technical needs have been creating intelligent movable machines for use alongside the chickens in poultry house. The most noticeable results include Octopus Poultry Safe (OPS) robot for sanitizing poultry houses autonomously, PoultryBot for picking floor eggs, and Spoutnic for training hens to move. This trend of research and development is expected to continue. An emerging research emphasis is systems approach to study the interactions of automated tasks to achieve high efficiency in whole poultry house management.