Study the social and economic factors that affects the adoption of management best practices in livestock farming: An applied study in ECER,Malaysia

Abstract

Smallholder livestock farmers in Malaysia, in public, and in East Coast Economic Region (ECER), specially, have  trouble in cattle  production in word of adopt  Best Management Practices(BMPs) in cattle farming.

The importance of this research lies in bridging the knowledge gap between farmers ’adoption of BMP systems and policy-making in the livestock industry, it is the basic understanding of the socio-economic variables of farmers that will help policy makers understand farmers ’requirements to improve their adoption on BMPs and then improve livestock production.

The main aim of this research is to build a logistic regression model between adoption of BMPs and social--economic factors on smallholder livestock farmer in ECER, Malaysia

The research was divided into two parts, the first part dealt with the importance and goal of the research in addition to the theoretical aspect of the logistical model, while the second part included how to apply the logistical model in terms of identifying the variables affecting the adoption of best management practices(BMPs) in livestock farming.