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Barriers of Adopting Harvesting Technology Inmalaysian Oil Palm Industry

Nowadays, technology has been recognized as one of the strategic tools in enhancing the economic competitiveness of a country. In oil palm industry, many types of machinery were invented to assist workers to perform their work process. However, manual methods still remain as the most effective way o...

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Main Authors: Mohd Nawi, Nur Syazwani, Md Deros, Baba, Nordin, Norani
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Language:English
Published: INSInet Publications 2014
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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spelling my.uum.repo.320242025-02-16T08:27:17Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/32024/ Barriers of Adopting Harvesting Technology Inmalaysian Oil Palm Industry Mohd Nawi, Nur Syazwani Md Deros, Baba Nordin, Norani HD28 Management. Industrial Management Nowadays, technology has been recognized as one of the strategic tools in enhancing the economic competitiveness of a country. In oil palm industry, many types of machinery were invented to assist workers to perform their work process. However, manual methods still remain as the most effective way of harvesting fresh fruit bunches (FFB) in oil palm industry. This situation may give negative impact to the Malaysian economy especially in terms of upstream productivity and sustainability. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to identify the factors that cause fresh fruit bunches harvesters to refuse or resist in using the new harvesting technology. Based on the literature of past studies, it was found that reasons the major identified are the large size and heavy weight, vibration, high cost, limited height of reach and difficult to access from palm to palm. In conclusion, these problems can be solved by incorporating ergonomic approach in the design of machinery for human use INSInet Publications 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/32024/1/AJBAS%2008%2019%202014%20198-200.pdf Mohd Nawi, Nur Syazwani and Md Deros, Baba and Nordin, Norani (2014) Barriers of Adopting Harvesting Technology Inmalaysian Oil Palm Industry. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 8 (19). pp. 198-200. ISSN 1991-8178 https://www.ajbasweb.com/
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Mohd Nawi, Nur Syazwani
Md Deros, Baba
Nordin, Norani
Barriers of Adopting Harvesting Technology Inmalaysian Oil Palm Industry
description Nowadays, technology has been recognized as one of the strategic tools in enhancing the economic competitiveness of a country. In oil palm industry, many types of machinery were invented to assist workers to perform their work process. However, manual methods still remain as the most effective way of harvesting fresh fruit bunches (FFB) in oil palm industry. This situation may give negative impact to the Malaysian economy especially in terms of upstream productivity and sustainability. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to identify the factors that cause fresh fruit bunches harvesters to refuse or resist in using the new harvesting technology. Based on the literature of past studies, it was found that reasons the major identified are the large size and heavy weight, vibration, high cost, limited height of reach and difficult to access from palm to palm. In conclusion, these problems can be solved by incorporating ergonomic approach in the design of machinery for human use
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author Mohd Nawi, Nur Syazwani
Md Deros, Baba
Nordin, Norani
author_facet Mohd Nawi, Nur Syazwani
Md Deros, Baba
Nordin, Norani
author_sort Mohd Nawi, Nur Syazwani
title Barriers of Adopting Harvesting Technology Inmalaysian Oil Palm Industry
title_short Barriers of Adopting Harvesting Technology Inmalaysian Oil Palm Industry
title_full Barriers of Adopting Harvesting Technology Inmalaysian Oil Palm Industry
title_fullStr Barriers of Adopting Harvesting Technology Inmalaysian Oil Palm Industry
title_full_unstemmed Barriers of Adopting Harvesting Technology Inmalaysian Oil Palm Industry
title_sort barriers of adopting harvesting technology inmalaysian oil palm industry
publisher INSInet Publications
publishDate 2014
url https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/32024/1/AJBAS%2008%2019%202014%20198-200.pdf
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