Poverty alleviation of beef cattle farmers through empowerment approach critical awareness-based

The issue that occurs in the community is that beef cattle farmers are helpless or poor in the financial economy, on the other hand, government programs continue to flow to the community with the hope that in a few years the farmers will be independent or run their own business without dependence on other parties. However, the reality is that until now the poverty of these farmers has not yet been resolved. Poverty occurs as a result of the empowerment principle approach that has not touched beef cattle farmers according to Ta'awum and Shura (QS. Al- Maidah: 5.2). To get the answer, this research was carried out in succession (1) determining the research location; (2) conducted pre-research, namely survey, focused group discussion; (3) determination of variables and indicators; (4) establish research objectives to get a picture of the critical awareness of beef cattle farmers based on the principles of Ta'awum and Shura, so that the answers obtained are the contribution of this research; (5) determine the type of research, namely quantitative descriptive; (6) data collection techniques by direct and in-depth interviews using a questionnaire to 25 beef cattle farmers who were determined intentionally; (7) data analysis tools that have been collected using descriptive statistics; (8) to facilitate the analysis in processing data, a 3-level categorization approach is used based on a Likert scale, namely high = 3, medium = 2, and low = 1; (9) determine the research results. The conclusions of the research showed that the farmers have not gotten out of poverty because the empowerment model has not focused on critical awareness factors and strengthening the institutional capacity of beef cattle farmers. There were still limited to help beef cattle farmers without being preceded by training, mentoring, monitoring and evaluation and continuous control, this was indicated by the value of critical awareness on strengthening institutional capacity and the process of understanding/ monitoring the program, namely the medium category with a score of 1.47 and 1.50 respectively.