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Agropolitan Sea Cucumber Farming in Mapan-Mapan, Pitas Sabah: Big Spending Small Success

This paper investigated why sea cucumber farming -Agropolitan balat (Holothuria Scabra spp.) Mapan-Mapan in Pitas, Sabah funded by taxpayers’ money was not successful in term of economic returns. Between the first (2013) and third year of this project (2015) the authors visited the site more than 20...

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Main Authors: James M. Alin, Datu Razali Datu Eranza
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sabah 2017
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QL614-639.8 Fishes
SH334 Economic aspects. Finance
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33130/1/Agropolitan%20Sea%20Cucumber%20Farming%20in%20Mapan-Mapan%2C%20Pitas%20Sabah.pdf
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spelling my.ums.eprints.331302022-07-12T12:45:19Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33130/ Agropolitan Sea Cucumber Farming in Mapan-Mapan, Pitas Sabah: Big Spending Small Success James M. Alin Datu Razali Datu Eranza QL614-639.8 Fishes SH334 Economic aspects. Finance This paper investigated why sea cucumber farming -Agropolitan balat (Holothuria Scabra spp.) Mapan-Mapan in Pitas, Sabah funded by taxpayers’ money was not successful in term of economic returns. Between the first (2013) and third year of this project (2015) the authors visited the site more than 20 times. Primary data particularly on sales were collected by interviewing participants of the project. Details on costing for constructing sea cucumber cages (or enclosure) was provided by the joint venture company. Economic returns from each cage were calculated using Profit Loss analysis. Results are as follows; firstly, the marginal return from two inputs of farming i.e. capital and physical labor was increasing in the beginning of Round 1 but it was diminishing from February, 2014 all the way to the end of Round 1. Secondly, the expected Break Even in round 2 (Year 3) did not materialized due to; (i) incentive to work among participants was severely affected by subsidization and (ii) they were not motivated to put efforts or take any precautionary measures to minimize losses during the annual monsoon months. Universiti Malaysia Sabah 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33130/1/Agropolitan%20Sea%20Cucumber%20Farming%20in%20Mapan-Mapan%2C%20Pitas%20Sabah.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33130/2/Agropolitan%20Sea%20Cucumber%20Farming%20in%20Mapan-Mapan%2C%20Pitas%20Sabah1.pdf James M. Alin and Datu Razali Datu Eranza (2017) Agropolitan Sea Cucumber Farming in Mapan-Mapan, Pitas Sabah: Big Spending Small Success. Journal of BIMP-EAGA Regional Development, 3 (2). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2232-1055 https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/BIMP-EAGA/article/view/1036
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SH334 Economic aspects. Finance
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SH334 Economic aspects. Finance
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Datu Razali Datu Eranza
Agropolitan Sea Cucumber Farming in Mapan-Mapan, Pitas Sabah: Big Spending Small Success
description This paper investigated why sea cucumber farming -Agropolitan balat (Holothuria Scabra spp.) Mapan-Mapan in Pitas, Sabah funded by taxpayers’ money was not successful in term of economic returns. Between the first (2013) and third year of this project (2015) the authors visited the site more than 20 times. Primary data particularly on sales were collected by interviewing participants of the project. Details on costing for constructing sea cucumber cages (or enclosure) was provided by the joint venture company. Economic returns from each cage were calculated using Profit Loss analysis. Results are as follows; firstly, the marginal return from two inputs of farming i.e. capital and physical labor was increasing in the beginning of Round 1 but it was diminishing from February, 2014 all the way to the end of Round 1. Secondly, the expected Break Even in round 2 (Year 3) did not materialized due to; (i) incentive to work among participants was severely affected by subsidization and (ii) they were not motivated to put efforts or take any precautionary measures to minimize losses during the annual monsoon months.
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author James M. Alin
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title Agropolitan Sea Cucumber Farming in Mapan-Mapan, Pitas Sabah: Big Spending Small Success
title_short Agropolitan Sea Cucumber Farming in Mapan-Mapan, Pitas Sabah: Big Spending Small Success
title_full Agropolitan Sea Cucumber Farming in Mapan-Mapan, Pitas Sabah: Big Spending Small Success
title_fullStr Agropolitan Sea Cucumber Farming in Mapan-Mapan, Pitas Sabah: Big Spending Small Success
title_full_unstemmed Agropolitan Sea Cucumber Farming in Mapan-Mapan, Pitas Sabah: Big Spending Small Success
title_sort agropolitan sea cucumber farming in mapan-mapan, pitas sabah: big spending small success
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33130/1/Agropolitan%20Sea%20Cucumber%20Farming%20in%20Mapan-Mapan%2C%20Pitas%20Sabah.pdf
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https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33130/
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