Socio-demographic factor that impinge youth acceptance towards agriculture: the case of contract farming in Malaysia

Contract farming has been identified as one of the agriculture branches that have a huge potential to attract youth participation in agriculture based on its bigger profits and easiness to conduct. This study intends to investigate socio-demographic factor that affect acceptance towards contract far...

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Main Authors: Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril, D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence, Uli, Jegak, Abu Samah, Bahaman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Digital Organization for Scientific Information 2010
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53531/
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author Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence
Uli, Jegak
Abu Samah, Bahaman
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description Contract farming has been identified as one of the agriculture branches that have a huge potential to attract youth participation in agriculture based on its bigger profits and easiness to conduct. This study intends to investigate socio-demographic factor that affect acceptance towards contract farming among youth in Malaysia. A total of 400 respondents were involved in this study. The respondents were selected from four universities in Malaysia and all of them are either in Agriculture, Economic or other courses (social science and pure science). From the ANOVA test conducted it can be concluded that zone have significant difference with acceptance towards contract farming while Pearson Correlation employed indicates that age and monthly expenditure have no significant relationship with acceptance towards contract farming.
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spelling upm-535312018-10-09T02:46:26Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53531/ Socio-demographic factor that impinge youth acceptance towards agriculture: the case of contract farming in Malaysia Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence Uli, Jegak Abu Samah, Bahaman Contract farming has been identified as one of the agriculture branches that have a huge potential to attract youth participation in agriculture based on its bigger profits and easiness to conduct. This study intends to investigate socio-demographic factor that affect acceptance towards contract farming among youth in Malaysia. A total of 400 respondents were involved in this study. The respondents were selected from four universities in Malaysia and all of them are either in Agriculture, Economic or other courses (social science and pure science). From the ANOVA test conducted it can be concluded that zone have significant difference with acceptance towards contract farming while Pearson Correlation employed indicates that age and monthly expenditure have no significant relationship with acceptance towards contract farming. International Digital Organization for Scientific Information 2010 Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53531/1/Socio-demographic%20factor%20that%20impinge%20youth%20acceptance%20towards%20agriculture.pdf Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril and D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence and Uli, Jegak and Abu Samah, Bahaman (2010) Socio-demographic factor that impinge youth acceptance towards agriculture: the case of contract farming in Malaysia. American-Eurasion Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, 7 (2). pp. 242-246. ISSN 1818-6769; ESSN: 1990-4053 https://www.idosi.org/aejaes/aejaes7(2).htm
spellingShingle Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence
Uli, Jegak
Abu Samah, Bahaman
Socio-demographic factor that impinge youth acceptance towards agriculture: the case of contract farming in Malaysia
title Socio-demographic factor that impinge youth acceptance towards agriculture: the case of contract farming in Malaysia
title_full Socio-demographic factor that impinge youth acceptance towards agriculture: the case of contract farming in Malaysia
title_fullStr Socio-demographic factor that impinge youth acceptance towards agriculture: the case of contract farming in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Socio-demographic factor that impinge youth acceptance towards agriculture: the case of contract farming in Malaysia
title_short Socio-demographic factor that impinge youth acceptance towards agriculture: the case of contract farming in Malaysia
title_sort socio-demographic factor that impinge youth acceptance towards agriculture: the case of contract farming in malaysia
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