Factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities

Agriculture sector in Malaysia is considered as one of the most important sector due to its contributions to the country. Agriculture sector played an important role and has a lot of potential in contributing into Malaysia’s economy growth. However, the agriculture sector in Malaysia is labour inten...

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Main Author: Mohamad Fadzil, Mohamad Afeeq
Format: Project Paper Report
Language:English
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89759/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89759/1/FP%202018%2042%20IR.pdf
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description Agriculture sector in Malaysia is considered as one of the most important sector due to its contributions to the country. Agriculture sector played an important role and has a lot of potential in contributing into Malaysia’s economy growth. However, the agriculture sector in Malaysia is labour intensive to make sure that agriculture productions can be done smoothly. Policies have been constructed by the government to tackle problems in the agriculture sector, promoting youth involvement and at the same time help improving the agriculture sector in Malaysia. However, despite the efforts and implementation of these policies by the Malaysian Government the involvement of youth in the agriculture sector in Malaysia is still low compared to their involvement in other more popular sectors. This research is conducted to identify factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities. The factors are subjective norms, knowledge, attitude, negative perception and perceived behavioural control. The respondents of this research were those between the age of 15 – 40 years old since it is the age range for youth. Based on the results collected and analysed, Subjective norms or external factor proved to be the most contributing factor among other factors. Out of all the factors, attitude is the only factor that does not influence youth intention to participate in agriculture upstream activities.
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spelling upm-897592021-06-18T02:53:58Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89759/ Factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities Mohamad Fadzil, Mohamad Afeeq Agriculture sector in Malaysia is considered as one of the most important sector due to its contributions to the country. Agriculture sector played an important role and has a lot of potential in contributing into Malaysia’s economy growth. However, the agriculture sector in Malaysia is labour intensive to make sure that agriculture productions can be done smoothly. Policies have been constructed by the government to tackle problems in the agriculture sector, promoting youth involvement and at the same time help improving the agriculture sector in Malaysia. However, despite the efforts and implementation of these policies by the Malaysian Government the involvement of youth in the agriculture sector in Malaysia is still low compared to their involvement in other more popular sectors. This research is conducted to identify factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities. The factors are subjective norms, knowledge, attitude, negative perception and perceived behavioural control. The respondents of this research were those between the age of 15 – 40 years old since it is the age range for youth. Based on the results collected and analysed, Subjective norms or external factor proved to be the most contributing factor among other factors. Out of all the factors, attitude is the only factor that does not influence youth intention to participate in agriculture upstream activities. 2018 Project Paper Report NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89759/1/FP%202018%2042%20IR.pdf Mohamad Fadzil, Mohamad Afeeq (2018) Factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities. [Project Paper Report]
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Factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities
title Factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities
title_full Factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities
title_fullStr Factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities
title_full_unstemmed Factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities
title_short Factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities
title_sort factors influencing youth engagement in agriculture upstream activities
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89759/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89759/1/FP%202018%2042%20IR.pdf