Socio-economic profile of small-scale laying chicken farmers in Blitar Regency Indonesia

Blitar Regency is one of the centers for livestock production in East Java, especially poultry. Egg production was 75% of the egg demand in East Java. There are many centers for producing eggs in Srengat, Ponggok, and Kademangan. Blitar Regency is selected as a research location with the consideration that it has the largest population of laying hens in Indonesia. The result showed that the number of respondents was 70 chicken farmers selected by purposive sampling. The number of family members about 45.5% has families, 4 people. The age of the farmers was 40-49 years old about 31.8%, while the smallest age was in the range of fewer than 19 years, which was 9.1%. the education of most respondents was junior and senior high school education levels about 31.8%. The breeding experience was 54.5% of respondents who had 1-10 years of farming experience. The livestock population of the largest respondents farmers is the total population of less than 5,000, about 65.2%. The conclusion of this research is the family member of farmers was 4 people, the educational level was senior high school, the age was 40-49, the experience was 1-10 years, livestock population was 5,000.