Abstract
The study has been conducted as a response towards a lack of studies into agriculture entrepreneurship within the local setting. The main attempt of this study is to determine the factors affecting the inclination toward agricultural entrepreneurship among students in agriculture learning institute. This is a quantitative study for which, based on a simple random sampling, a total of 237 students from four agriculture learning institutes were selected as the respondents. The analyzed data has confirmed that the highest mean score was recorded for social value, followed by subjective norm, then behavioral attitude, then closer valuation and finally perceived behavioral control. Based on the data obtained, it is recommended that more studies to be conducted to examine the influencing factors and the challenges faced by the new generations in Malaysia around agriculture entrepreneurship.
Highlights
The agricultural sector has been an important one in Malaysia since before the country’s independence, and was the main contributor to the Malaysian economy during the First National Agriculture Policy, NAP 1 (1984-1991), which emphasized the policy of expansion and focused on commodity crops such as palm oil and cocoa
The effectiveness of agriculture in combating poverty and unemployment has been proven by the success of a number of high-impact agricultural programs initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture such as Permanent Food Production Parks, High Impact Project-Aquaculture Industrial Zone (HIP-ZIA), and Agropolitan (Faiz et al, 2010)
The instrument used comprised of eight sections, namely as demographic profile, perception of entrepreneurial course, inclination toward agriculture entrepreneurship, behavioral attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and social valuation
Summary
The agricultural sector has been an important one in Malaysia since before the country’s independence, and was the main contributor to the Malaysian economy during the First National Agriculture Policy, NAP 1 (1984-1991), which emphasized the policy of expansion and focused on commodity crops such as palm oil and cocoa. As stated in Tenth Malaysia Plan, it is needed for the Bumiputera to enhance their involvement in Malaysian economy and it will be focusing to strengthen Bumiputera entrepreneurship to help create competitive businesses in high impact sector. There are adequate numbers of agricultural courses offered by government agencies such as the Agricultural Certificate Course in Agriculture Institute, the Youth Agriculture Entrepreneur Scheme under TKPM, agricultural skill courses with the National Agriculture Training Council etc. Inspite of such efforts, agriculture entrepreneurship still fails to attract interest from the younger generations, and a number of causes have been identified. As William et al (2004) highlight, there is a lack of exposure to and relevant information about the importance of agriculture entrepreneurship and food sufficiency
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