Cover Image

Exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in Sarawak: a qualitative study

The pepper plant is considered a valuable and popular choice of crop in Malaysia despite market fluctuation affecting its prices and other constraints in the pepper industry. In addition, pepper plant is mainly grown in rural areas of Sarawak and the growers are mainly smallholders who face tough...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mazlan, M.N, Saili, A.R, Saili, Jamayah, Zulkefli, F, Syahlan, S, Ruslan, N.A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rynnye Lyan Resources 2020
Subjects:
S Agriculture (General)
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/33531/1/Exploring%20the%20challenges%20of%20pepper%20smallholder%20farmers%20in%20Sarawak%20a%20qualitative%20study_pdf.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/33531/
https://www.myfoodresearch.com/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.unimas.ir.33531
record_format eprints
spelling my.unimas.ir.335312020-12-21T03:41:47Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/33531/ Exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in Sarawak: a qualitative study Mazlan, M.N Saili, A.R Saili, Jamayah Zulkefli, F Syahlan, S Ruslan, N.A S Agriculture (General) The pepper plant is considered a valuable and popular choice of crop in Malaysia despite market fluctuation affecting its prices and other constraints in the pepper industry. In addition, pepper plant is mainly grown in rural areas of Sarawak and the growers are mainly smallholders who face tough challenges in the industry. Thus, this research endeavours to explore the challenges faced by pepper growers in Sarawak as seen from their perspectives. Qualitative data with a phenomenological approach was conducted to allow an in-depth understanding of their challenges. Data analysis of six semi-structured interviews on the pepper growers was conducted at an agreeable place to the participants. A sampling method was done via snowball sampling. The findings indicated several main themes of the challenges. The emerging main themes revealed that the challenges were associated with a shortage of workers, climate, profits, government assistance, pest, and crop diseases. The result will provide useful information for the government authority, agricultural agencies, and help to formulate the action plan to enhance pepper cultivation. Rynnye Lyan Resources 2020-12-20 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/33531/1/Exploring%20the%20challenges%20of%20pepper%20smallholder%20farmers%20in%20Sarawak%20a%20qualitative%20study_pdf.pdf Mazlan, M.N and Saili, A.R and Saili, Jamayah and Zulkefli, F and Syahlan, S and Ruslan, N.A (2020) Exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in Sarawak: a qualitative study. Food Research, 4 (5). pp. 96-103. ISSN eISSN 2550-2166 https://www.myfoodresearch.com/ 10.26656/fr.2017.4(S5).019
institution Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
building Centre for Academic Information Services (CAIS)
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
content_source UNIMAS Institutional Repository
url_provider http://ir.unimas.my/
language English
topic S Agriculture (General)
spellingShingle S Agriculture (General)
Mazlan, M.N
Saili, A.R
Saili, Jamayah
Zulkefli, F
Syahlan, S
Ruslan, N.A
Exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in Sarawak: a qualitative study
description The pepper plant is considered a valuable and popular choice of crop in Malaysia despite market fluctuation affecting its prices and other constraints in the pepper industry. In addition, pepper plant is mainly grown in rural areas of Sarawak and the growers are mainly smallholders who face tough challenges in the industry. Thus, this research endeavours to explore the challenges faced by pepper growers in Sarawak as seen from their perspectives. Qualitative data with a phenomenological approach was conducted to allow an in-depth understanding of their challenges. Data analysis of six semi-structured interviews on the pepper growers was conducted at an agreeable place to the participants. A sampling method was done via snowball sampling. The findings indicated several main themes of the challenges. The emerging main themes revealed that the challenges were associated with a shortage of workers, climate, profits, government assistance, pest, and crop diseases. The result will provide useful information for the government authority, agricultural agencies, and help to formulate the action plan to enhance pepper cultivation.
format Article
author Mazlan, M.N
Saili, A.R
Saili, Jamayah
Zulkefli, F
Syahlan, S
Ruslan, N.A
author_facet Mazlan, M.N
Saili, A.R
Saili, Jamayah
Zulkefli, F
Syahlan, S
Ruslan, N.A
author_sort Mazlan, M.N
title Exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in Sarawak: a qualitative study
title_short Exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in Sarawak: a qualitative study
title_full Exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in Sarawak: a qualitative study
title_fullStr Exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in Sarawak: a qualitative study
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in Sarawak: a qualitative study
title_sort exploring the challenges of pepper smallholder farmers in sarawak: a qualitative study
publisher Rynnye Lyan Resources
publishDate 2020
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/33531/1/Exploring%20the%20challenges%20of%20pepper%20smallholder%20farmers%20in%20Sarawak%20a%20qualitative%20study_pdf.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/33531/
https://www.myfoodresearch.com/
_version_ 1687397430255943680
score 13.211869

Similar Items