<![CDATA[Limited availability of high-quality feed, particularly during the dry season, remains one of the major constraints to the development of smallholder goat farming. This challenge is also experienced by the Sejahtera Mandiri Goat Farmer Group in Pa'rasangeng Beru Village, Kelara District, Jeneponto Regency, which relies primarily on fresh forage and has not yet optimized the utilization of agricultural residues as alternative feed resources. This community service program aimed to improve farmers' knowledge, technical skills, and capacity to adopt local feed-based technologies in order to support sustainable feed availability. The program employed a Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) approach through counseling, technical training, demonstrations, learning-by-doing practices, mentoring, monitoring, and evaluation. The introduced technologies included the production of silage and fermented feed using rice straw, corn cobs, rice bran, and locally available forage, supported by a forage chopper machine. The program significantly improved participants' capacity, as indicated by the increase in knowledge levels from 45% to 92% and practical skills from 40% to 90% following the training. The learning-by-doing approach proved effective in enhancing farmers' technical competence in processing local feed resources into silage and fermented feed while encouraging independent technology adoption. Furthermore, the program promoted the utilization of agricultural residues as alternative feed resources, strengthened the group's self-reliance in feed provision, and demonstrated considerable potential to improve goat productivity and the sustainability of smallholder livestock farming based on locally available resources.]]>
