IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijgrec/v6y2012i4p401-416.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Quantifying of farmers' acceptance and perception in developing kenaf, Hibiscus cannabinus, industry in Malaysia

Author

Listed:
  • Norfaryanti Kamaruddin
  • Mohd. Shahwahid Haji Othman

Abstract

Kenaf is a new crop to farmers in Malaysia. Although kenaf has much potential as an alternative raw material to wood fibre, the cultivation is developing at slow pace. This paper aims to gather farmers' acceptance and perceptions on developing kenaf as a new industry. A survey to registered Kenaf farmers was conducted in the East Coast region of Malaysia through structured questionnaires and personal interviews. Factor analysis result shows that there are five elements that contribute to the farmers' acceptance levels, which are; level of satisfaction and knowledge, kenaf programme's performance and resource availability, availability of land and crop protection, and industrial linkages. Out of these elements, only the first two elements are highly significant to the level of acceptance on developing the kenaf industry. The results contribute to a better understanding of factors that significantly affect farmers' acceptance in developing a new crop in Malaysia.

Suggested Citation

  • Norfaryanti Kamaruddin & Mohd. Shahwahid Haji Othman, 2012. "Quantifying of farmers' acceptance and perception in developing kenaf, Hibiscus cannabinus, industry in Malaysia," International Journal of Green Economics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(4), pages 401-416.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgrec:v:6:y:2012:i:4:p:401-416
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=51491
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijgrec:v:6:y:2012:i:4:p:401-416. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=158 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.