Factors affecting economic performance and willingness to pay of agricultural entrepreneurs in Betong District, Sarawak / Fareiny Morni ... [et al.]

The agricultural sector in Malaysia exists in a dualism, shared between large conglomerates and smallholders who operate on small parcels of land. Unlike large conglomerates who own numerous plantations throughout Malaysia, smallholders, especially rural farmers are among the poor and they face vari...

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Main Authors: Morni, Fareiny, Abang Abdul Rahman, Dayang Hummida, Kamri, Thalany
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Sarawak 2020
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spelling my.uitm.ir.403082021-01-11T09:33:29Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40308/ Factors affecting economic performance and willingness to pay of agricultural entrepreneurs in Betong District, Sarawak / Fareiny Morni ... [et al.] Morni, Fareiny Abang Abdul Rahman, Dayang Hummida Kamri, Thalany Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty The agricultural sector in Malaysia exists in a dualism, shared between large conglomerates and smallholders who operate on small parcels of land. Unlike large conglomerates who own numerous plantations throughout Malaysia, smallholders, especially rural farmers are among the poor and they face various issues in maintaining and operating their business operations. Rising costs, low prices for agriculture produce, disease, lack of infrastructure and many others are among some of the challenges that are borne by smallholders. What are the factors that affect the economic performance of rural entrepreneurs? And would the entrepreneurs be willing to pay to improve the facilities surrounding their business operations? This study attempts to investigate not only the background of rural entrepreneurs in Sarawak’s Betong district, it also examined the factors that would affect the performance of the entrepreneurs and identify the amount that they are willing to pay to contribute to the improvement of the facilities surrounding their business operations. Primary data collection and cluster sampling method were used and questionnaire survey were distributed to targeted respondents i.e. agricultural entrepreneurs around the Betong District. Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Sarawak 2020-10-01 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40308/1/40308.pdf Morni, Fareiny and Abang Abdul Rahman, Dayang Hummida and Kamri, Thalany (2020) Factors affecting economic performance and willingness to pay of agricultural entrepreneurs in Betong District, Sarawak / Fareiny Morni ... [et al.]. International Journal of Service Management and Sustainability, 5 (2). pp. 1-26. ISSN 2550-1569 http://www.ijsmssarawak.com/ijsms_vol_5_2/3.M063_Income-Betong.pdf
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topic Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
spellingShingle Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty
Morni, Fareiny
Abang Abdul Rahman, Dayang Hummida
Kamri, Thalany
Factors affecting economic performance and willingness to pay of agricultural entrepreneurs in Betong District, Sarawak / Fareiny Morni ... [et al.]
description The agricultural sector in Malaysia exists in a dualism, shared between large conglomerates and smallholders who operate on small parcels of land. Unlike large conglomerates who own numerous plantations throughout Malaysia, smallholders, especially rural farmers are among the poor and they face various issues in maintaining and operating their business operations. Rising costs, low prices for agriculture produce, disease, lack of infrastructure and many others are among some of the challenges that are borne by smallholders. What are the factors that affect the economic performance of rural entrepreneurs? And would the entrepreneurs be willing to pay to improve the facilities surrounding their business operations? This study attempts to investigate not only the background of rural entrepreneurs in Sarawak’s Betong district, it also examined the factors that would affect the performance of the entrepreneurs and identify the amount that they are willing to pay to contribute to the improvement of the facilities surrounding their business operations. Primary data collection and cluster sampling method were used and questionnaire survey were distributed to targeted respondents i.e. agricultural entrepreneurs around the Betong District.
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author Morni, Fareiny
Abang Abdul Rahman, Dayang Hummida
Kamri, Thalany
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Abang Abdul Rahman, Dayang Hummida
Kamri, Thalany
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title Factors affecting economic performance and willingness to pay of agricultural entrepreneurs in Betong District, Sarawak / Fareiny Morni ... [et al.]
title_short Factors affecting economic performance and willingness to pay of agricultural entrepreneurs in Betong District, Sarawak / Fareiny Morni ... [et al.]
title_full Factors affecting economic performance and willingness to pay of agricultural entrepreneurs in Betong District, Sarawak / Fareiny Morni ... [et al.]
title_fullStr Factors affecting economic performance and willingness to pay of agricultural entrepreneurs in Betong District, Sarawak / Fareiny Morni ... [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed Factors affecting economic performance and willingness to pay of agricultural entrepreneurs in Betong District, Sarawak / Fareiny Morni ... [et al.]
title_sort factors affecting economic performance and willingness to pay of agricultural entrepreneurs in betong district, sarawak / fareiny morni ... [et al.]
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Sarawak
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url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40308/1/40308.pdf
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