Factors Influencing Malaysian Pineapple Smallholders Intention to Adopt Mygap and Mpib Roles to Inspire the Growers to Obtain Mygap Certification

Abstract

Purpose of the study: The study aims to identify the factors influencing growers’ intention to adopt MyGAP and MPIB roles and to inspire the pineapple growers to obtain MyGAP certificate.
 Methodology: Questionnaires were distributed to a sample of 52 pineapple smallholder respondents in the study area. Descriptive analysis and binary logistic regressions were conducted using IMB SPSS version 23.
 Main Findings and Novelty: The results of this study show that the three factors influencing pineapple smallholders’ intention to adopt MyGAP are training, attitude and barriers. The odd ratios show growers who received training are four times more likely to adopt MyGAP.
 Applications of this study: MPIB has to conduct more training in order to inspire pineapple growers to obtain MyGAP certification. Meanwhile, the growers also have to change their attitude to accept MyGAP and overcome the perceived barriers for adopting MyGAP.

The Adoption of MyGAP among Pineapple Smallholders: Case Study in Muar, Johor Malaysia

“…The p-value is less than 0.05, hence there is a significant relationship between attitude and the adoption of MyGAP. From previous research on sustainable agriculture practices, the attitude was significantly influencing the sustainable agricultural concept (Fam et al, 2019).…”

“…Similarly, knowledge of MyGAP can have a significantly positive or negative influence on the adoption of MyGAP. Some studies also show that the respondents did not have enough knowledge on sustainable agriculture which in turn may have an influence on the adoption of MyGAP (Fam et al, 2019).…”

“…MyGAP adoption requirements include ecologically responsible and sustainable operations, as well as safe and high-quality goods. By implementing MYGAP, Malaysia's agricultural products will receive more recognition and acceptability on a national and worldwide level (Fam et al, 2019). According to the Department of Economics Malaysia, in June 2006, a total of 182 fruit and vegetable farms were accredited (from about 1,000 applicants) under the Farm Accreditation Scheme in Malaysia.…”

A review on participation of cocoa smallholders in agricultural certification scheme

“…In this part, the keywords for agricultural certification schemes included in this review are: agricultural and certification scheme [7,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,19] or certified [20] or similar since it was used in the title. Then, the search term for smallholders was smallholders or farmers or producers [11,14].…”

“…In this part, the keywords for agricultural certification schemes included in this review are: agricultural and certification scheme [7,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,19] or certified [20] or similar since it was used in the title. Then, the search term for smallholders was smallholders or farmers or producers [11,14]. The literature search was performed using a specific search highlighting the title and concepts considered in this review such as factors [21] or influence [11,16] or effectiveness [18] or motivations [19] or preference [20] or adopting [10] or affecting [9].…”