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Evaluation of factors affecting agricultural cooperatives performance in Malaysia

Malaysia targets cooperatives sector to be the third engine of economic development in the 9th Malaysian plan and to increase its contribution to 5% of Malaysian GDP in 2013 from 1% in 2008. This study investigates factors that affect performance of agricultural cooperatives in Malaysia. Producti...

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Main Authors: Idris, Nurjihan, Abdullah, Amin Mahir
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/21119/1/ID%2021119.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.211192015-01-09T00:18:13Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/21119/ Evaluation of factors affecting agricultural cooperatives performance in Malaysia Idris, Nurjihan Abdullah, Amin Mahir Malaysia targets cooperatives sector to be the third engine of economic development in the 9th Malaysian plan and to increase its contribution to 5% of Malaysian GDP in 2013 from 1% in 2008. This study investigates factors that affect performance of agricultural cooperatives in Malaysia. Production function is used as a guide to measure how much input (farm size, share capital, labor and energy cost) is needed to produce goods and services (sales). Panel data analysis or random effect model in particular is used to measure economic efficiency of agricultural cooperatives. The data used is from yearly financial report of Malaysian agricultural cooperative from 2004-2007. The result indicates that only labor is significant in determining sales of cooperatives. 2011 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/21119/1/ID%2021119.pdf Idris, Nurjihan and Abdullah, Amin Mahir (2011) Evaluation of factors affecting agricultural cooperatives performance in Malaysia. In: 2nd International Conference on Business and Economic Research (2nd ICBER 2011), 14-16 Mar. 2011, Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia . (pp. 2354-2361).
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description Malaysia targets cooperatives sector to be the third engine of economic development in the 9th Malaysian plan and to increase its contribution to 5% of Malaysian GDP in 2013 from 1% in 2008. This study investigates factors that affect performance of agricultural cooperatives in Malaysia. Production function is used as a guide to measure how much input (farm size, share capital, labor and energy cost) is needed to produce goods and services (sales). Panel data analysis or random effect model in particular is used to measure economic efficiency of agricultural cooperatives. The data used is from yearly financial report of Malaysian agricultural cooperative from 2004-2007. The result indicates that only labor is significant in determining sales of cooperatives.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Idris, Nurjihan
Abdullah, Amin Mahir
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Abdullah, Amin Mahir
Evaluation of factors affecting agricultural cooperatives performance in Malaysia
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Abdullah, Amin Mahir
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title Evaluation of factors affecting agricultural cooperatives performance in Malaysia
title_short Evaluation of factors affecting agricultural cooperatives performance in Malaysia
title_full Evaluation of factors affecting agricultural cooperatives performance in Malaysia
title_fullStr Evaluation of factors affecting agricultural cooperatives performance in Malaysia
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url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/21119/1/ID%2021119.pdf
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