Determinants for sustainability in the dairy industry in Malaysia

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spelling 5742 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=5742 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection407072 Restricted Document Conference Conference Paper application/pdf 5 1.6 Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 20 Paper Capture Plug-in Nurul Aisyah 2015-06-01 11:51:48 0267-01-FH03-FBIM-15-03064.pdf UniSZA Private Access Determinants for sustainability in the dairy industry in Malaysia Malaysian dairy sectors considered as small with the level of milk sufficiency about 9% but the government aims are to double local milk production in the short term as well as the long term and to increase self-sufficiency level to higher level. Most of the dairy farmers in Malaysia consist of smallholders. In order to improve the dairy industry in Malaysia, it is important for dairy farmers adapting the sustainability practices in their management and farm operation. Implementation of sustainable practices in dairy should starts from the farm where the farmers should understand the concept thoroughly as they can do the practices effectively in the long run. Sustainable practices also will lead to increase in profits, enhance food security as well as sustaining the ecological and social aspects. This study attempts to investigate the determinants in sustainability as well as describing the socio economic characteristics and information seeking behaviour of the dairy farmers which will be the guidelines to develop recommendation to accelerate adoption of sustainability among dairy farmers. The preliminary data was collected using questionnaires through conducting face to face interviews with 50 dairy farmers from Johor. The likert-like scale was employed to determine the practices that adopted by the dairy farmers. The gathered data was analysed using SPSS. The findings indicated that the dairy farmers had a higher understanding about the farm sustainability aspect which gives the highest mean score of 4.41. The second highest mean score is the ecological aspect which is about 4.13. The mean score for economic aspect shows the mean score about 4.00. The social aspect of sustainability revealed the lowest mean score which was about 3.46. The results indicated that the most favourable sustainable practice is farm sustainability. The dairy farmers should have in depth knowledge in farm sustainability, economic sustainability, social sustainability and ecological sustainability to enhance the dairy farming industry. 1-5 National Postgraduate Symposium on Sustainable Agriculture 2014: Agriculture for Secured Livelihoods Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Campus
spellingShingle Determinants for sustainability in the dairy industry in Malaysia
summary Malaysian dairy sectors considered as small with the level of milk sufficiency about 9% but the government aims are to double local milk production in the short term as well as the long term and to increase self-sufficiency level to higher level. Most of the dairy farmers in Malaysia consist of smallholders. In order to improve the dairy industry in Malaysia, it is important for dairy farmers adapting the sustainability practices in their management and farm operation. Implementation of sustainable practices in dairy should starts from the farm where the farmers should understand the concept thoroughly as they can do the practices effectively in the long run. Sustainable practices also will lead to increase in profits, enhance food security as well as sustaining the ecological and social aspects. This study attempts to investigate the determinants in sustainability as well as describing the socio economic characteristics and information seeking behaviour of the dairy farmers which will be the guidelines to develop recommendation to accelerate adoption of sustainability among dairy farmers. The preliminary data was collected using questionnaires through conducting face to face interviews with 50 dairy farmers from Johor. The likert-like scale was employed to determine the practices that adopted by the dairy farmers. The gathered data was analysed using SPSS. The findings indicated that the dairy farmers had a higher understanding about the farm sustainability aspect which gives the highest mean score of 4.41. The second highest mean score is the ecological aspect which is about 4.13. The mean score for economic aspect shows the mean score about 4.00. The social aspect of sustainability revealed the lowest mean score which was about 3.46. The results indicated that the most favourable sustainable practice is farm sustainability. The dairy farmers should have in depth knowledge in farm sustainability, economic sustainability, social sustainability and ecological sustainability to enhance the dairy farming industry.
title Determinants for sustainability in the dairy industry in Malaysia
title_full Determinants for sustainability in the dairy industry in Malaysia
title_fullStr Determinants for sustainability in the dairy industry in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Determinants for sustainability in the dairy industry in Malaysia
title_short Determinants for sustainability in the dairy industry in Malaysia
title_sort determinants for sustainability in the dairy industry in malaysia