Adoption of integrated cattle and oil palm farming system in Malaysia
Malaysian government had encouraged the adoption of integrated cattle and oil palm farming system (ICOFS) since the year 1998. This is due to large areas of land suitable for ICOFS in Malaysia that can be well utilised. Rising up the participation in ICOFS is one of the effort in facing the inc...
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2020
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| Summary: | Malaysian government had encouraged the adoption of integrated cattle and oil palm
farming system (ICOFS) since the year 1998. This is due to large areas of land suitable
for ICOFS in Malaysia that can be well utilised. Rising up the participation in ICOFS
is one of the effort in facing the increasing demand of meat nationwide and growing
dependency on imported meat. Apart from that, Malaysia needs to increase the self�sufficiency level of national meat production to 32.7% by 2020 as stated in the
National Agri-Food Policy 2011-2020. Despite this, only a small number of farmers
have adopted ICOFS in Malaysia and less is known so far about the farmer's attitudes
towards the ICOFS in Malaysia. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the current
practice as well as factors affecting and constraints to the adoption of ICOFS in
Malaysia. Interviews of four selected experts in ICOFS were held to examine the
current practice of ICOFS in Malaysia. Results from the interviews and literature
review have been cross-compared to develop questionnaire instruments. Then, the
survey questionnaire was carried out to 153 adopters and non-adopters of ICOFS in
Johor, Malaysia to identify the key factors that influence the adoption of ICOFS. The
study found that information and know-how and availability of skilled labour are the
significant factors that encourage farmers to adopt ICOFS. On the other hand,
government support and policy constraint and production and on-farm constraint are
the significant constraints hindering the adoption of ICOFS. Based on the findings of
this study, one of the measure to increase the rate of adoption of ICOFS are by helping
the farmers to hire extra labour and to have skills needed. Furthermore, rate of ICOFS
could also be increase by helping the farmers to have better control on weed, pest and
diseases on farm as well as not interrupting their oil palm production. In addition, it is
suggested to provide them with more opportunity towards incentives, training and
technical support from the field officers. It is suggested for future research to explore
the effect of factors affecting adoption and constraints to adoption on other attitudinal
and psychological outcomes such as satisfaction, successfulness, involvement and
degree of use. |
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