Browsing by Author "Norhidayah Che Soh"

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    Competitiveness of paddy in major granary areas of Penisular Malaysia
    (Terengganu: Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 2016-10) Norhidayah Che Soh
    Rice is the staple food for most of the people in the world and also basic food for Malaysian. Currently, Malaysia imports 30% of the total rice from foreign countries to meet self-sufficient level of Malaysian. The issue of food safety is a very important issue and needs to be emphasized all the time.
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    Evaluation of growth performance of bamboo (Gigantochloa sp.) in integration with banana (Musa paradisiaca L.) and misai kucing (Orthosiphon stamineus benth.)
    (Tesis AKUATROP, 2011-09) Norhidayah Che Soh
    Agroforestry is one of the agricultural designs which integrate woody perennial and agricultural crop. The choice of species and system in agroforestry practice is very important to ensure its productivity. In Malaysia,various agroforestry designs were introduced but the application still limited due to the socio economic problems and also lack of knowledge. Bamboo is one of the suitable species for agroforestry practices because of its various uses and fast growing botanical species.
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    Technical Efficiency of Paddy Farming in Peninsular Malaysia
    (Journal of Biology, Agriculture and Healthcare, 2016) Norhidayah Che Soh; Mohd Mansor Ismail; Adzemi Mat Arshad
    Rice is the staple food for most of the people in the world. Rice also served as a basic food for Malaysian people. More than 300,000 people in Malaysia are paddy farmers and involved in small scale cultivation. Rice production especially in the granary area is expected to increase after the new incentive scheme was introduced by the government as a lot of budget had been spent for this incentive. In addition, the paddy farmers have faced the increase in cost of rice production almost in every year. This study was conducted to measure the technical efficiency of paddy farming in the East Coast and West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia which are MADA, KADA, IADA Penang and IADA KETARA by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The data were obtained by interviewing the paddy farmers using the well-structured questionnaires. The interviewed farmers were chosen randomly from the whole paddy farmers of each agency. For this function, this study has applied a non-probability sampling method that is a purposive sampling technique. The result showed that the IADA KETARA recorded the highest value which is 0.901 followed by MADA with 0.843, IADA Penang with 0.836 and KADA 0.607. The value of output slacks is zero and only for IADA KETARA. The KADA area operated with 0.017 as minimum output slacks, IADA-Penang with 0.332 as maximum output slacks and MADA was in the middle of the two with 0.159 output slacks. These showed the average level of shortfall in paddy production in the three granary areas.
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    Technical Efficiency of Paddy Farming in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
    (Journal of Biology, Agriculture and Healthcare, 2016) Norhidayah Che Soh; Mohd Mansor Ismail; Adzemi Mat Arshad
    The KADA and IADA KETARA are among important granary areas in Peninsular Malaysia producing paddy for domestic consumption. Both granaries are located in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia and involved with the new paddy scheme introduced by the Malaysian Government in 2008 during the world food crisis. This research was conducted to determine the best granary area in terms of technical efficiency (TE) based on two methods; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). The study involved interviewing with 148 paddy farmers using open and close ended questionnaires and the respondents were randomly chosen. The results showed that based on DEA indicator, IADA KETARA recorded the highest TE which is 0.90 while KADA obtained only 0.61. Based on SFA indicator, IADA KETARA indicated 0.84 TE while KADA, 0.67. The results consistently showed the TE scores estimated under DEA (TE-vrs) and SFA methodologies for IADA KETARA is greater than KADA and they are statistically significant at 5% level in both areas. Thus, it can be concluded that IADA KETARA are the best managed paddy farms in terms of technical efficiency compared to KADA.