Introduction
Universities as an institution for higher education have vision and mission to fullfill three pillars of universities namely education and teaching, researches and extention to communities. In order to realize this, then the function are to give qualified education and it interconnection with the requirement of the communities and development of sciences and technologies with dedication and responsibilities of communities, country and state.
At the moment the level of poor people in Indonesia estimated 40% of the population. This had shown that economics downfall followed by monetery crisis had cause the communities loosed their jobs in productive and non productive sectors. Productive sectors including agriculture in general and especially animal husbandries sub sectors had potential for development as source of income of the communities in hinterlands.
Government of South Sulawesi Province have development programs which are based on agricultural business and industries development of animal as part of agricultural business have quite significant contribution in improvement of regional economics. However the method conducted by communities were traditional and had not been touch by sciences and technologies with the effects that the result were not maximum.
One of the sector which is good for development in this region is Bali cattle husbandries by using marginal lands and make it productive. There are several supporting this programs. Firstly South Sulawesi province is one of the centre for development of Bali cattle in Indonesia, secondly, geographically, this is conform and conducive to local environment for development, thirdly, marginal lands could give economic advantage as this marginal lands spread in several areas and could be connected into animal paddocks potentially productive for Bali cattle husbandries.
According to data 1992, in South Sulawesi there there were 986,000 hectares marginal lands, 543,000 hectares