The march to sustainability of agriculture through contract farming - how will the youth fare?

Undoubtedly modern farming methods are important as the driver that will enable the sustainability of agriculture and one of it is contract farming that is believed to have a high prospect in enabling the agriculture sector to accomplish the mission of sustainability. It is often said that one of th...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva, Abu Samah, Bahaman, Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ontario International Development Agency 2012
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24266/1/The%20march%20to%20sustainability%20of%20agriculture%20through%20contract%20farming.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24266/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalbrowse&journal_id=1650801
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia
Language: English
id my.upm.eprints.24266
record_format eprints
spelling my.upm.eprints.242662017-07-25T09:16:30Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24266/ The march to sustainability of agriculture through contract farming - how will the youth fare? Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva Abu Samah, Bahaman Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Undoubtedly modern farming methods are important as the driver that will enable the sustainability of agriculture and one of it is contract farming that is believed to have a high prospect in enabling the agriculture sector to accomplish the mission of sustainability. It is often said that one of the pertinent groups in any society is the youth and their contribution is indeed vital in safeguarding the agriculture sector and its’ march to sustainability. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate the level of acceptance of youth toward contract farming and its’ contributing factors. The data for this study was collected via a survey method and a total of 400 students from four tertiary institutions in Malaysia participated in this study. The outcome of the study depicted that the respondents had a highly positive acceptance toward contract farming and its’ significant predictors were attitude, knowledge and belief. It was further identified that education plays an important role in motivating our youth to be involved in agriculture. Moreover, the study too showed that with proper exposure of knowledge and information, youth are determined to accept and be involved in agriculture in an enterprising manner. Ontario International Development Agency 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24266/1/The%20march%20to%20sustainability%20of%20agriculture%20through%20contract%20farming.pdf Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva and Abu Samah, Bahaman and Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril (2012) The march to sustainability of agriculture through contract farming - how will the youth fare? OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, 3 (11). pp. 59-66. ISSN 1923-6654; ESSN: 1923-6662 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalbrowse&journal_id=1650801
institution Universiti Putra Malaysia
building UPM Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Putra Malaysia
content_source UPM Institutional Repository
url_provider http://psasir.upm.edu.my/
language English
description Undoubtedly modern farming methods are important as the driver that will enable the sustainability of agriculture and one of it is contract farming that is believed to have a high prospect in enabling the agriculture sector to accomplish the mission of sustainability. It is often said that one of the pertinent groups in any society is the youth and their contribution is indeed vital in safeguarding the agriculture sector and its’ march to sustainability. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate the level of acceptance of youth toward contract farming and its’ contributing factors. The data for this study was collected via a survey method and a total of 400 students from four tertiary institutions in Malaysia participated in this study. The outcome of the study depicted that the respondents had a highly positive acceptance toward contract farming and its’ significant predictors were attitude, knowledge and belief. It was further identified that education plays an important role in motivating our youth to be involved in agriculture. Moreover, the study too showed that with proper exposure of knowledge and information, youth are determined to accept and be involved in agriculture in an enterprising manner.
format Article
author Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
Abu Samah, Bahaman
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
spellingShingle Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
Abu Samah, Bahaman
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
The march to sustainability of agriculture through contract farming - how will the youth fare?
author_facet Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
Abu Samah, Bahaman
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
author_sort Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
title The march to sustainability of agriculture through contract farming - how will the youth fare?
title_short The march to sustainability of agriculture through contract farming - how will the youth fare?
title_full The march to sustainability of agriculture through contract farming - how will the youth fare?
title_fullStr The march to sustainability of agriculture through contract farming - how will the youth fare?
title_full_unstemmed The march to sustainability of agriculture through contract farming - how will the youth fare?
title_sort march to sustainability of agriculture through contract farming - how will the youth fare?
publisher Ontario International Development Agency
publishDate 2012
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24266/1/The%20march%20to%20sustainability%20of%20agriculture%20through%20contract%20farming.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24266/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalbrowse&journal_id=1650801
_version_ 1643828309029552128