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Malaysian contract farmers’ attitude towards sustainable agriculture


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Abu Samah, Bahaman and D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence and Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril and Man, Norsida and Azman, Azmariana (2012) Malaysian contract farmers’ attitude towards sustainable agriculture. Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research, 2 (9). pp. 9205-9210. ISSN 2090-4304; ESSN: 2090-424X

Abstract

This study attempts to discover the attitude of contract farmers towards sustainable agriculture. A total of 326 contract farmers from four selected states in Malaysia were randomly selected as the respondents for this study. The findings reveal that the contract farmers surveyed have a favourable attitude towards contract farming. Inferential statistics unveiled that two demographic factors, namely zone and race, show significant differences in terms of attitude towards sustainable agriculture, while age was found to be negatively correlated with it. It is recommended that more courses and seminars should be conducted to further promote favourable attitudes towards sustainable development among contract farmers, and that access to financial support and knowledge of sustainable agriculture should be increased. In addition, to add our understanding on farmers’ attitudes towards sustainable agriculture, more research should be conducted in this area.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Agriculture
Institute for Social Science Studies
Publisher: TextRoad Publication
Keywords: Contract farmers; Sustainable agriculture; Favourable attitude; Farmers’ development agriculture development
Depositing User: Nurul Ainie Mokhtar
Date Deposited: 07 Jun 2018 00:37
Last Modified: 07 Jun 2018 00:37
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53614
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