Acceptance of rice farming technology by paddy growers in granary areas of integrated agricultural development project (IADP) Penang / Zainol Ahmad

Even though the Ministry of Agriculture and the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) released super yielding paddy varieties suitable for double cropping such as MR 219 and MR 220 that could achieve 10 tons per hectare, paddy yield in the Penang rice bowl areas of Integr...

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Main Author:	Ahmad, Zainol
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2005
Subjects:	Agricultural ecology (General) SB Plant culture
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27671/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27671/1/TM_ZAINOL%20AHMAD%20AS%2005_5.pdf

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spelling	uitm-276712020-01-23T08:36:21Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27671/ Acceptance of rice farming technology by paddy growers in granary areas of integrated agricultural development project (IADP) Penang / Zainol Ahmad Ahmad, Zainol Agricultural ecology (General) SB Plant culture Even though the Ministry of Agriculture and the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) released super yielding paddy varieties suitable for double cropping such as MR 219 and MR 220 that could achieve 10 tons per hectare, paddy yield in the Penang rice bowl areas of Integrated Agricultural Development Project (IADP) is generally below 5.0 tons per hectare. The study was carried out to evaluate the possible reasons f or paddy growers obtaining such a low yield. The methodology of study comprised the formulation of questionnaire which was used for field survey and subsequently the analysis of data. It comprised the questionnaire covering both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The data collected were subjected to statistical analysis using Statistical Analysis System (SAS), which included the analysis of variance and multivariate analysis. Several factors had contributed to low paddy yield. They included the lackadaisical attitude of the majority of the paddy growers in the cultivation of paddy. In addition, other contributing factors included high dependence of paddy growers on external service providers and unwillingness of the paddy growers to adopt the recommended technological package provided by MARDI. Paddy growers discriminated cultural practices almost at all levels of crop requirements. 2005 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27671/1/TM_ZAINOL%20AHMAD%20AS%2005_5.pdf Ahmad, Zainol (2005) Acceptance of rice farming technology by paddy growers in granary areas of integrated agricultural development project (IADP) Penang / Zainol Ahmad. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
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description	Even though the Ministry of Agriculture and the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) released super yielding paddy varieties suitable for double cropping such as MR 219 and MR 220 that could achieve 10 tons per hectare, paddy yield in the Penang rice bowl areas of Integrated Agricultural Development Project (IADP) is generally below 5.0 tons per hectare. The study was carried out to evaluate the possible reasons f or paddy growers obtaining such a low yield. The methodology of study comprised the formulation of questionnaire which was used for field survey and subsequently the analysis of data. It comprised the questionnaire covering both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The data collected were subjected to statistical analysis using Statistical Analysis System (SAS), which included the analysis of variance and multivariate analysis. Several factors had contributed to low paddy yield. They included the lackadaisical attitude of the majority of the paddy growers in the cultivation of paddy. In addition, other contributing factors included high dependence of paddy growers on external service providers and unwillingness of the paddy growers to adopt the recommended technological package provided by MARDI. Paddy growers discriminated cultural practices almost at all levels of crop requirements.
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author	Ahmad, Zainol
author_facet	Ahmad, Zainol
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title	Acceptance of rice farming technology by paddy growers in granary areas of integrated agricultural development project (IADP) Penang / Zainol Ahmad
title_short	Acceptance of rice farming technology by paddy growers in granary areas of integrated agricultural development project (IADP) Penang / Zainol Ahmad
title_full	Acceptance of rice farming technology by paddy growers in granary areas of integrated agricultural development project (IADP) Penang / Zainol Ahmad
title_fullStr	Acceptance of rice farming technology by paddy growers in granary areas of integrated agricultural development project (IADP) Penang / Zainol Ahmad
title_full_unstemmed	Acceptance of rice farming technology by paddy growers in granary areas of integrated agricultural development project (IADP) Penang / Zainol Ahmad
title_sort	acceptance of rice farming technology by paddy growers in granary areas of integrated agricultural development project (iadp) penang / zainol ahmad
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