Analysis on smallholder preferences on selling their yield at Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan (PPK), Sri Medan, Batu Pahat, Johor / Shah Iskandar Nordin and Nabila Huda Aziz

The fresh fruit bunch (FFB) middlemen sub-sector is part of Malaysia palm oil supply chain. It is interrelated with other sub sectors either directly or indirectly. It serves as a intermediary between the smallholder and the millers. Middleman need to be efficient so that the FFB sent to the mills w...

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Main Authors: Nordin, Shah Iskandar, Aziz, Nabila Huda
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Published: Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2018
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spelling my.uitm.ir.565832022-05-03T02:38:16Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/56583/ Analysis on smallholder preferences on selling their yield at Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan (PPK), Sri Medan, Batu Pahat, Johor / Shah Iskandar Nordin and Nabila Huda Aziz Nordin, Shah Iskandar Aziz, Nabila Huda Agricultural economics Government owned and operated farms. State farms. Sovkhozes S Agriculture (General) The fresh fruit bunch (FFB) middlemen sub-sector is part of Malaysia palm oil supply chain. It is interrelated with other sub sectors either directly or indirectly. It serves as a intermediary between the smallholder and the millers. Middleman need to be efficient so that the FFB sent to the mills within 24 hours after harvesting remain in good quality. As the private middlemen, they always take advantage toward the oil palm farmers. Some fanners prefer to sell to private middlemen due to several factors such as transportation, storage and the middlemen offer them higher price than the market price. While smallholder still prefer to selling their oil palm fruit to PPK as them offer not so high price and they provide efficient storage, trustworthy and also incentive. The purpose of the study is to identify the most preferable of independent smallholders when they selling their Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) at PPK. The study, was conducted in several communities at Sri Medan, Batu Pahat. Primary data with structured questionnaire were collected from 200 respondents of smallholder using stratified sampling. Factor Analysis is used to analyse relationship between price of the oil palm, incentive offered by middlemen and government assistance towards smallholder preferences when selling their yield. Based on factor analysis result shown, the value of KMO for this study was 0.867 which is acceptable and reliable for conducting factor analysis. These 3 factor collectively explained 53.937% of the total variation of the factor influencing smallholder preferences when they were selling their Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB). For this data, Bartlett's test is highly significant (p<0.001) and therefore factor analysis is appropriate. The study can be useful guide to PPK to improve the smallholder development and income. Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2018 Book Section PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/56583/1/56583.pdf (2018) Analysis on smallholder preferences on selling their yield at Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan (PPK), Sri Medan, Batu Pahat, Johor / Shah Iskandar Nordin and Nabila Huda Aziz. In: Plantation Management Exhibition & Seminar (PIMES). Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology, Kampus Jasin, p. 92.
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topic Agricultural economics
Government owned and operated farms. State farms. Sovkhozes
S Agriculture (General)
spellingShingle Agricultural economics
Government owned and operated farms. State farms. Sovkhozes
S Agriculture (General)
Nordin, Shah Iskandar
Aziz, Nabila Huda
Analysis on smallholder preferences on selling their yield at Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan (PPK), Sri Medan, Batu Pahat, Johor / Shah Iskandar Nordin and Nabila Huda Aziz
description The fresh fruit bunch (FFB) middlemen sub-sector is part of Malaysia palm oil supply chain. It is interrelated with other sub sectors either directly or indirectly. It serves as a intermediary between the smallholder and the millers. Middleman need to be efficient so that the FFB sent to the mills within 24 hours after harvesting remain in good quality. As the private middlemen, they always take advantage toward the oil palm farmers. Some fanners prefer to sell to private middlemen due to several factors such as transportation, storage and the middlemen offer them higher price than the market price. While smallholder still prefer to selling their oil palm fruit to PPK as them offer not so high price and they provide efficient storage, trustworthy and also incentive. The purpose of the study is to identify the most preferable of independent smallholders when they selling their Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) at PPK. The study, was conducted in several communities at Sri Medan, Batu Pahat. Primary data with structured questionnaire were collected from 200 respondents of smallholder using stratified sampling. Factor Analysis is used to analyse relationship between price of the oil palm, incentive offered by middlemen and government assistance towards smallholder preferences when selling their yield. Based on factor analysis result shown, the value of KMO for this study was 0.867 which is acceptable and reliable for conducting factor analysis. These 3 factor collectively explained 53.937% of the total variation of the factor influencing smallholder preferences when they were selling their Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB). For this data, Bartlett's test is highly significant (p<0.001) and therefore factor analysis is appropriate. The study can be useful guide to PPK to improve the smallholder development and income.
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author Nordin, Shah Iskandar
Aziz, Nabila Huda
author_facet Nordin, Shah Iskandar
Aziz, Nabila Huda
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title Analysis on smallholder preferences on selling their yield at Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan (PPK), Sri Medan, Batu Pahat, Johor / Shah Iskandar Nordin and Nabila Huda Aziz
title_short Analysis on smallholder preferences on selling their yield at Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan (PPK), Sri Medan, Batu Pahat, Johor / Shah Iskandar Nordin and Nabila Huda Aziz
title_full Analysis on smallholder preferences on selling their yield at Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan (PPK), Sri Medan, Batu Pahat, Johor / Shah Iskandar Nordin and Nabila Huda Aziz
title_fullStr Analysis on smallholder preferences on selling their yield at Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan (PPK), Sri Medan, Batu Pahat, Johor / Shah Iskandar Nordin and Nabila Huda Aziz
title_full_unstemmed Analysis on smallholder preferences on selling their yield at Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan (PPK), Sri Medan, Batu Pahat, Johor / Shah Iskandar Nordin and Nabila Huda Aziz
title_sort analysis on smallholder preferences on selling their yield at pertubuhan peladang kawasan (ppk), sri medan, batu pahat, johor / shah iskandar nordin and nabila huda aziz
publisher Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology
publishDate 2018
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/56583/1/56583.pdf
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