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Malaysian agricultural development toward the 2000s - an information technology perspective

As the information society evolves into a socio-economic reality in South East Asia, the agriculture sector will be undergoing a fundamental transformation along with the other segments of the economy. With the shift from capital and natural resources to information as the strategic resourse, agricu...

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Main Authors: Han, Chun Kwong, Gibbons, Eric T., Mohaiyidin, Mohd. Ghazali
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: 1985
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17764/1/ID%2017764.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.177642013-11-12T01:42:35Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17764/ Malaysian agricultural development toward the 2000s - an information technology perspective Han, Chun Kwong Gibbons, Eric T. Mohaiyidin, Mohd. Ghazali As the information society evolves into a socio-economic reality in South East Asia, the agriculture sector will be undergoing a fundamental transformation along with the other segments of the economy. With the shift from capital and natural resources to information as the strategic resourse, agriculture's share of the nation's wealth will diminish disproportionately unless due initiatives are taken to ensure the centrality of information technology in agriculture development. In this paper, a scenario is generated of an agricultural sector energised by knowledge information processing systems. The full potential of information technology are examined. It is concluded that information technology should be considered as a critical success factor in maximising agricultural productivity and profitability as the world enters the Information Age. 1985-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17764/1/ID%2017764.pdf Han, Chun Kwong and Gibbons, Eric T. and Mohaiyidin, Mohd. Ghazali (1985) Malaysian agricultural development toward the 2000s - an information technology perspective. In: Malaysian Agricultural Economics Association Conference on Current Issues in Malaysian Agriculture, 14-15 May 1985, Kuala Lumpur. . English
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description As the information society evolves into a socio-economic reality in South East Asia, the agriculture sector will be undergoing a fundamental transformation along with the other segments of the economy. With the shift from capital and natural resources to information as the strategic resourse, agriculture's share of the nation's wealth will diminish disproportionately unless due initiatives are taken to ensure the centrality of information technology in agriculture development. In this paper, a scenario is generated of an agricultural sector energised by knowledge information processing systems. The full potential of information technology are examined. It is concluded that information technology should be considered as a critical success factor in maximising agricultural productivity and profitability as the world enters the Information Age.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Han, Chun Kwong
Gibbons, Eric T.
Mohaiyidin, Mohd. Ghazali
spellingShingle Han, Chun Kwong
Gibbons, Eric T.
Mohaiyidin, Mohd. Ghazali
Malaysian agricultural development toward the 2000s - an information technology perspective
author_facet Han, Chun Kwong
Gibbons, Eric T.
Mohaiyidin, Mohd. Ghazali
author_sort Han, Chun Kwong
title Malaysian agricultural development toward the 2000s - an information technology perspective
title_short Malaysian agricultural development toward the 2000s - an information technology perspective
title_full Malaysian agricultural development toward the 2000s - an information technology perspective
title_fullStr Malaysian agricultural development toward the 2000s - an information technology perspective
title_full_unstemmed Malaysian agricultural development toward the 2000s - an information technology perspective
title_sort malaysian agricultural development toward the 2000s - an information technology perspective
publishDate 1985
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17764/1/ID%2017764.pdf
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