Author : Rustadi

Summary : The study was conducted to establish an objective basis of integrated rice-fish-sheep farming system. Twenty-one paddy plots of 200 square meter each were used in a randomized complete block design experiment. There were seven treatments replicated three times, with six combinations of 100 and 200 sheep stocking rates/ha and fish stocking rates of 6,000, 6,750, and 75000 fingerlings/ha. The control had at the rate of 6,000 fingerlings/ha. Javanese thin-tailed weaning sheep; CISADANE rice variety. Oreochromis niloticus Cyprinus stocked at 2:1 ratio were used in the study. The sheep were allowed to graze during daytime and fed with grass in the evening. The sheep excretions fell directly into the catch basin constructed under the shed. Fish production was numerically higher in paddles with sheep than those without sheep. A combination of 100:7,500 sheep-fish/ha had the highest numerical fish production among the treatments. However, the highest rice production was obtained from the 200:7,500 sheep-fish combination/ha. The highest profit was obtained from the combination of 100:7,500 sheep-fish/ha but it was not significantly different from the control. The sheep-fish stocking system had 27.70 percent more net income than the integrated rice-fish system.