This study analyzes the pineapple production efficiency of the Integrated Agricultural Developmen... more This study analyzes the pineapple production efficiency of the Integrated Agricultural Development Project (IADP) in Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia and also studies its determinants. In the study area, IADP plays an important role in rural development as a poverty alleviation program through agricultural development. Despite the many privileges received by the farmers, especially from the government, they are still less efficient. This study adopts the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in measuring technical efficiency. Further, this study aims to examines the determinants of efficiency by estimating the level of farmer characteristics as a function of farmers age, education level, family labor, years of experience in agriculture, society members and farm size. The estimation used the Tobit Model. The results from this study show that the majority of farmers in IADP are still less efficient. In addition, the results show that relying on family labor, the years of experience in agriculture and also participation as the association's member are all important determinants of the level of efficiency for the IADP farmers in the agricultural sector. Increasing agriculture productivity can also guarantee the achievement of a more optimal sustainable living in an effort to increase the farmer's income. Such information is valuable for extention services and policy makers since it can help to guide policies toward increased efficiency among pineapple farmers in Malaysia.
Integrated Agricultural Development Project (IADP) is a platform oir rual socioeconomic improvmen... more Integrated Agricultural Development Project (IADP) is a platform oir rual socioeconomic improvment. This initiative has raised the income of farmers by creating a large scale fruit producer in Sarawak. Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify the direct impact of the agricultural development project on socioeconomic improvement in the Samarahan area. This study was involved 14 villlages and is located in the Mid-Samarahan and Upper Samarahan areas. A total of 220 households were interviewed during December 2005 - February 2006 to collect information on yield and household income. The paired t-test analysis showed that the project had a positive impact on in-farm and other incomes of farmers. It was also revealed that the poverty level of Sarawak state was reduced from the poverty line, from 77% in 1986 - 19.5% in 2005. The percentage of hard core poverty fell from 30.9% in 2000 - 6.4% in 2005. The project was generally implemented as an appraisal to increase the incomes of rural population through fruit cultivation as a main economic activity. It was concluded that this project is efficient as a tool to combat poverty and improved the socioeconomic level and income and generating activities among the rural community.
Eradication of poverty is the main agenda of the country since independence (1957) and a main tru... more Eradication of poverty is the main agenda of the country since independence (1957) and a main trust of the New Economic Policy (NEP) when it was introduced in 1970. As a result, Malaysia has been able to achieve the goal of reducing poverty, from 52.4% in 1970 to 1.7% in the year 2012. This study examines the impact of non-farm income on poverty and its effect on the time taken to attain relief from poverty. Face-to-face interviews with 220 households of farmers in the Area of Integrated Agricultural Develoment (IADA) in Samarahan, Sarawak were conducted from December 2005 to February 2006. The objective was to investigate the effect of non-farm income on poverty and to measure the length of time out taken for farmers to emerge out of poverty. The analysis on poverty measurement was done using FGT indices as proposed by Foster, Greer and Thorbeck; and the index introduced by Murdoch was also employed in this study. The result showed that non-farm income reduced poverty by 47.06%, while the poverty gap declined by 58.67% and the intensity of poverty (severity of poverty) decreased by 80.69%. The time required to break away from poverty for poor and hard-core poor farmer households with non-farm income were 8.16 years, respectively compared with 11.49 years for poor and 8.67 years for hard-core poor farmers without non-farm income. This proved that non-farm income sources were essential in reducing the transition period from poverty reduction to poverty relief for farmers in the IADA.
This study analyzes the pineapple production efficiency of the Integrated Agricultural Developmen... more This study analyzes the pineapple production efficiency of the Integrated Agricultural Development Project (IADP) in Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia and also studies its determinants. In the study area, IADP plays an important role in rural development as a poverty alleviation program through agricultural development. Despite the many privileges received by the farmers, especially from the government, they are still less efficient. This study adopts the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in measuring technical efficiency. Further, this study aims to examines the determinants of efficiency by estimating the level of farmer characteristics as a function of farmers age, education level, family labor, years of experience in agriculture, society members and farm size. The estimation used the Tobit Model. The results from this study show that the majority of farmers in IADP are still less efficient. In addition, the results show that relying on family labor, the years of experience in agriculture and also participation as the association's member are all important determinants of the level of efficiency for the IADP farmers in the agricultural sector. Increasing agriculture productivity can also guarantee the achievement of a more optimal sustainable living in an effort to increase the farmer's income. Such information is valuable for extention services and policy makers since it can help to guide policies toward increased efficiency among pineapple farmers in Malaysia.
Integrated Agricultural Development Project (IADP) is a platform oir rual socioeconomic improvmen... more Integrated Agricultural Development Project (IADP) is a platform oir rual socioeconomic improvment. This initiative has raised the income of farmers by creating a large scale fruit producer in Sarawak. Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify the direct impact of the agricultural development project on socioeconomic improvement in the Samarahan area. This study was involved 14 villlages and is located in the Mid-Samarahan and Upper Samarahan areas. A total of 220 households were interviewed during December 2005 - February 2006 to collect information on yield and household income. The paired t-test analysis showed that the project had a positive impact on in-farm and other incomes of farmers. It was also revealed that the poverty level of Sarawak state was reduced from the poverty line, from 77% in 1986 - 19.5% in 2005. The percentage of hard core poverty fell from 30.9% in 2000 - 6.4% in 2005. The project was generally implemented as an appraisal to increase the incomes of rural population through fruit cultivation as a main economic activity. It was concluded that this project is efficient as a tool to combat poverty and improved the socioeconomic level and income and generating activities among the rural community.
Eradication of poverty is the main agenda of the country since independence (1957) and a main tru... more Eradication of poverty is the main agenda of the country since independence (1957) and a main trust of the New Economic Policy (NEP) when it was introduced in 1970. As a result, Malaysia has been able to achieve the goal of reducing poverty, from 52.4% in 1970 to 1.7% in the year 2012. This study examines the impact of non-farm income on poverty and its effect on the time taken to attain relief from poverty. Face-to-face interviews with 220 households of farmers in the Area of Integrated Agricultural Develoment (IADA) in Samarahan, Sarawak were conducted from December 2005 to February 2006. The objective was to investigate the effect of non-farm income on poverty and to measure the length of time out taken for farmers to emerge out of poverty. The analysis on poverty measurement was done using FGT indices as proposed by Foster, Greer and Thorbeck; and the index introduced by Murdoch was also employed in this study. The result showed that non-farm income reduced poverty by 47.06%, while the poverty gap declined by 58.67% and the intensity of poverty (severity of poverty) decreased by 80.69%. The time required to break away from poverty for poor and hard-core poor farmer households with non-farm income were 8.16 years, respectively compared with 11.49 years for poor and 8.67 years for hard-core poor farmers without non-farm income. This proved that non-farm income sources were essential in reducing the transition period from poverty reduction to poverty relief for farmers in the IADA.
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