Farmers’ free time: an opportunity to increase income
This book presents the agricultural development in Malaysia, issues and challenges in paddy farming and revealed the importance and the role of off-farm employment in increasing farmers’ income in granary area. It also covers and explains the situation of paddy farming in two granary areas which are...
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Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
2015
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| author | Man, Norsida Ismaila, Sadiya Sami |
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| description | This book presents the agricultural development in Malaysia, issues and challenges in paddy farming and revealed the importance and the role of off-farm employment in increasing farmers’ income in granary area. It also covers and explains the situation of paddy farming in two granary areas which are Muda Area in Kedah and Kemasin Semerak Area in Kelantan. The Muda Area is the biggest area with high productivity in paddy while Kemasin Semerak are among the area that produce low in productivity. Paddy farming is very importance and play a vital role in food security and agriculture development in Malaysia. Beside the high cost in paddy production, government of Malaysia need to determine and convince farming community to produce our principal food rice for Malaysian sustainably and give them high income and profit. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-469822022-05-25T07:42:18Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/46982/ Farmers’ free time: an opportunity to increase income Man, Norsida Ismaila, Sadiya Sami This book presents the agricultural development in Malaysia, issues and challenges in paddy farming and revealed the importance and the role of off-farm employment in increasing farmers’ income in granary area. It also covers and explains the situation of paddy farming in two granary areas which are Muda Area in Kedah and Kemasin Semerak Area in Kelantan. The Muda Area is the biggest area with high productivity in paddy while Kemasin Semerak are among the area that produce low in productivity. Paddy farming is very importance and play a vital role in food security and agriculture development in Malaysia. Beside the high cost in paddy production, government of Malaysia need to determine and convince farming community to produce our principal food rice for Malaysian sustainably and give them high income and profit. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2015 Book PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/46982/1/9789673444045.pdf Man, Norsida and Ismaila, Sadiya Sami (2015) Farmers’ free time: an opportunity to increase income. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, Serdang, Selangor. ISBN 9789673444045 |
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