The Sustainability Practices among Dairy Farmers: The Case of Johor
Sustainability concept in agriculture is becoming widespread throughout industries in many fields even in crop production, livestock production and etc. Sustainable in agriculture is believed can give present and future good benefit to the farmers and society. However, in dairy sector in Malaysi...
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| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/5452/1/FH02-FBIM-16-07469.pdf http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/5452/ |
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| Summary: | Sustainability concept in agriculture is becoming widespread
throughout industries in many fields even in crop production,
livestock production and etc. Sustainable in agriculture is believed
can give present and future good benefit to the farmers and
society. However, in dairy sector in Malaysia, the sustainability
concepts and practices seems not fully aware by the farmers
which result in low self- sufficiency level in milk production.
The self-sufficiency level in Malaysia is merely 6% and this lead
to the urgency of importing more milk from other countries such
as Australia, Holland and others. This study attempts to describe
the descriptive thoughts on sustainability among Malaysian dairy
farmers as well as describing the socio economic characteristics
of the dairy farmers which will be the indicator of adoption of
sustainability practices among dairy farmers. The preliminary
data was collected using questionnaires through conducting face
to face interviews with 50 dairy farmers from Johor. The Likerttype
scale was employed to determine the practices that adopted
by the dairy farmers. The gathered data was analysed using
SPSS. The findings indicated that the dairy farmers had a higher
understanding about the farm sustainability aspect which gives
the highest mean score of 4.41. The second highest mean score is
the ecological aspect which is about 4.13. The mean score for
economic aspect shows the mean score about 4.00. The social
aspect of sustainability revealed the lowest mean score which
was about 3.46. The results indicated that the farmers favour sustainable
practice is farm sustainability system. Sustainability in
dairy farming sector in Malaysia can be achieved if the three elements
of sustainability which is environmental, economic and
social aspect were implemented and adopted in this sector. |
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