Sustainability and Agrosilvopastoral Development Model: Farmers Perceptions and Supporting Factors in West Sumatera, Indonesia

The Agrosilvopastoral model application can transform an agricultural development system efficiently and sustainably. This model can integrate a potential for some agricultural sub-sectors s a region. This study aims to analyze farmers’ perceptions and supporting factor for a livestock development by using the Agrosilvopastoral model. The research was being conducted by smallholder farmers in Tanah Datar district of West Sumatra province. They were asked to fulfill out the relative questionnaires with that research. The obtaining data was analyzed by using a Likert Scale and Structural Equation Modeling. Thus the research results are obtained from farmers ’perceptions for applying the Agrosilvopastoral model, it is included a good category. Significantly, the factors only encourage the farmers to apply for it in West Sumatra. Those are as the aspects of economy and social. On the other hand there are also the insignificant and environmental technical aspects to encourage them as application in the Agrosilvopastoral model. Therefore, it's an obligation to increase knowledge and skills to raise and create the livestock population, the business scale, the income and farmers’ welfare. The environmental awareness is a need increased to realize the sustainable livestock development.