Agro-innovation – path to agricultural entrepreneurship: feasibility study / Elias Kamaruzzaman … [et al.]

Technology changes will always be for the better, not only to the end users but also to the intellectual property owners of the technology and the implementers of the technology. The objective of this paper is to study the feasibility and viability for entrepreneurs to become service providers for t...

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Main Authors: Kamaruzzaman, Elias, Mohd Daud, Norzaidi, Wahab, Samsudin, Abu Dardak, Rozhan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 2019
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29509/
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author Kamaruzzaman, Elias
Mohd Daud, Norzaidi
Wahab, Samsudin
Abu Dardak, Rozhan
author_facet Kamaruzzaman, Elias
Mohd Daud, Norzaidi
Wahab, Samsudin
Abu Dardak, Rozhan
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description Technology changes will always be for the better, not only to the end users but also to the intellectual property owners of the technology and the implementers of the technology. The objective of this paper is to study the feasibility and viability for entrepreneurs to become service providers for the dispensation of fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and supporting services such as aerial crop reconnaissance using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones. The methodology used for this study is SWOT Analysis. Both primary and secondary data is used for this analysis. This study finds that paddy farming employing drones is feasible. The beneficiaries of this study shall be the government, by way of lowering financial cost to subsidise the paddy planting, the farmers who no longer need the services of migrant workers, thus saving production cost, and finally the drone service providers and their downstream business associates who can engaged themselves in very lucrative businesses.
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spelling uitm-295092022-07-04T06:17:54Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29509/ Agro-innovation – path to agricultural entrepreneurship: feasibility study / Elias Kamaruzzaman … [et al.] abrij Kamaruzzaman, Elias Mohd Daud, Norzaidi Wahab, Samsudin Abu Dardak, Rozhan Small business. Medium-sized business Automobile industry and trade Technology changes will always be for the better, not only to the end users but also to the intellectual property owners of the technology and the implementers of the technology. The objective of this paper is to study the feasibility and viability for entrepreneurs to become service providers for the dispensation of fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and supporting services such as aerial crop reconnaissance using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones. The methodology used for this study is SWOT Analysis. Both primary and secondary data is used for this analysis. This study finds that paddy farming employing drones is feasible. The beneficiaries of this study shall be the government, by way of lowering financial cost to subsidise the paddy planting, the farmers who no longer need the services of migrant workers, thus saving production cost, and finally the drone service providers and their downstream business associates who can engaged themselves in very lucrative businesses. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 2019-06 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29509/1/29509.pdf Kamaruzzaman, Elias and Mohd Daud, Norzaidi and Wahab, Samsudin and Abu Dardak, Rozhan (2019) Agro-innovation – path to agricultural entrepreneurship: feasibility study / Elias Kamaruzzaman … [et al.]. (2019) Advances in Business Research International Journal (ABRIJ) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Advances_in_Business_Research_International_Journal_=28ABRIJ=29.html>, 5 (1). pp. 63-70. ISSN 2462-1838 https://abrij.uitm.edu.my
spellingShingle Small business. Medium-sized business
Automobile industry and trade
Kamaruzzaman, Elias
Mohd Daud, Norzaidi
Wahab, Samsudin
Abu Dardak, Rozhan
Agro-innovation – path to agricultural entrepreneurship: feasibility study / Elias Kamaruzzaman … [et al.]
title Agro-innovation – path to agricultural entrepreneurship: feasibility study / Elias Kamaruzzaman … [et al.]
title_full Agro-innovation – path to agricultural entrepreneurship: feasibility study / Elias Kamaruzzaman … [et al.]
title_fullStr Agro-innovation – path to agricultural entrepreneurship: feasibility study / Elias Kamaruzzaman … [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed Agro-innovation – path to agricultural entrepreneurship: feasibility study / Elias Kamaruzzaman … [et al.]
title_short Agro-innovation – path to agricultural entrepreneurship: feasibility study / Elias Kamaruzzaman … [et al.]
title_sort agro-innovation – path to agricultural entrepreneurship: feasibility study / elias kamaruzzaman … [et al.]
topic Small business. Medium-sized business
Automobile industry and trade
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29509/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29509/