A scoping review of wellbeing and quality of life among oil palm smallholders
Palm oil has been recognized as large world trade of vegetable oil around the globe. The vast improvement of planting palm trees and the numbers of oil palm export shown that these agricultural has huge potential for the farmers. The Objective of this paper is to evaluate the wellbeing and qua...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2021
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16942/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16942/1/46785-151110-1-SM.pdf |
| Summary: | Palm oil has been recognized as large world trade of vegetable oil around the globe. The vast
improvement of planting palm trees and the numbers of oil palm export shown that these
agricultural has huge potential for the farmers. The Objective of this paper is to evaluate the
wellbeing and quality of life among oil palm smallholders. Since this is a review paper, a
secondary data through various past researches has been collected and the data were extracted,
and thematic analysis was used to organize the data. There is no denying that oil palm
smallholders have received many benefits through their participation in palm plantations. Their
economic wellbeing concludes having enough enough salary and job opportunities whereas
psychology wellbeing includes being diligence, enthusiasm, not giving up, confident and honesty
in the work done. They are also willing to take a risk in their plantation activity. The ssocial
wellbeing of smallholders is the provision of roads, bridges, community centers, health and
education services and communication infrastructure. All these aspects of wellbeing will lead to
the enhancement the quality of life among the smallholders. Although there are several type of
researches that has been conducted on social benefits from oil plantation but the numbers of
researches still not adequate. Therefore, more research on the wellbeing and quality of life of oil
palm smallholders need to be conducted. |
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