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Rural transformation: a lesson learned from agropolitan development programs in Malaysia

Since last decades, the Malaysian government has applied a commendable path in transforming its socio-economic landscape and the lives of the locals, in line with its vision to become a developed region by 2020. The paper explores rural transformation implementation by presenting the socio-economic...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Yusof, Afgani, Eusoff @ Yendo, Saad, Hamid
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Language:English
Published: 2014
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spelling my.utm.608602017-08-29T01:44:59Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60860/ Rural transformation: a lesson learned from agropolitan development programs in Malaysia Ahmad, Yusof Afgani, Eusoff @ Yendo Saad, Hamid TH Building construction Since last decades, the Malaysian government has applied a commendable path in transforming its socio-economic landscape and the lives of the locals, in line with its vision to become a developed region by 2020. The paper explores rural transformation implementation by presenting the socio-economic development parameters of rural poor based on agropolitan project in the East Coast Economic Region (ECER) of Malaysian Peninsula. This agropolitan project is aimed to boost positive socio-economic alteration among the poor people through commercial-agriculture related activities. The case of this research are two agropolitan projects located at Batu 8 Lepar and Runchang located in Pekan, Pahang and one agropolitan project in South Kelantan located at Gua Musang. The research conducted, aimed to explore incomes achievement and three nexus of agropolitan development goals based on economic-physical-human development accomplishment. As many as 254 agropolitan participants were selected as respondents for the questionnaire survey. The main objective is to explore their experiences after joining the projects. Mixed method approach used in this study found that agropolitan projects have given remarkable transformation to participants’ life and rural development programs as a whole. Nevertheless, despite its achievement, challenges recognized by participants remain immense especially in transportation provision, technical difficulties caused by animal threat and human capital improvement. These should be addressed in more depth by Agropolitan related agencies. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60860/1/HamidSaad2014_RuralTransformationaLessonLearnedfromAgropolitan.pdf Ahmad, Yusof and Afgani, Eusoff @ Yendo and Saad, Hamid (2014) Rural transformation: a lesson learned from agropolitan development programs in Malaysia. In: International Conference Urban and Regional Planning (ICURP) 2014, 9-11 May, 2014, Skudai, Johor.
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Ahmad, Yusof
Afgani, Eusoff @ Yendo
Saad, Hamid
Rural transformation: a lesson learned from agropolitan development programs in Malaysia
description Since last decades, the Malaysian government has applied a commendable path in transforming its socio-economic landscape and the lives of the locals, in line with its vision to become a developed region by 2020. The paper explores rural transformation implementation by presenting the socio-economic development parameters of rural poor based on agropolitan project in the East Coast Economic Region (ECER) of Malaysian Peninsula. This agropolitan project is aimed to boost positive socio-economic alteration among the poor people through commercial-agriculture related activities. The case of this research are two agropolitan projects located at Batu 8 Lepar and Runchang located in Pekan, Pahang and one agropolitan project in South Kelantan located at Gua Musang. The research conducted, aimed to explore incomes achievement and three nexus of agropolitan development goals based on economic-physical-human development accomplishment. As many as 254 agropolitan participants were selected as respondents for the questionnaire survey. The main objective is to explore their experiences after joining the projects. Mixed method approach used in this study found that agropolitan projects have given remarkable transformation to participants’ life and rural development programs as a whole. Nevertheless, despite its achievement, challenges recognized by participants remain immense especially in transportation provision, technical difficulties caused by animal threat and human capital improvement. These should be addressed in more depth by Agropolitan related agencies.
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author Ahmad, Yusof
Afgani, Eusoff @ Yendo
Saad, Hamid
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Afgani, Eusoff @ Yendo
Saad, Hamid
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title Rural transformation: a lesson learned from agropolitan development programs in Malaysia
title_short Rural transformation: a lesson learned from agropolitan development programs in Malaysia
title_full Rural transformation: a lesson learned from agropolitan development programs in Malaysia
title_fullStr Rural transformation: a lesson learned from agropolitan development programs in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Rural transformation: a lesson learned from agropolitan development programs in Malaysia
title_sort rural transformation: a lesson learned from agropolitan development programs in malaysia
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