Knowledge and Perception in Implementing Principle 1-4 of MSPO among Independent Smallholder Case of Sungai Rambai, Melaka

Abstract

The oil palm plantations in Malaysia are largely based on the estate management system and smallholder scheme. The area planted was increasing rapidly from 1.8 million hectares in 1985 becoming a 5.81 million hectare in 2017. However, independent smallholders have possessed a major threat towards Malaysia such as lacking in term of documentation preparation, awareness and higher in cost implementation. Thus, it is perceiving that this sector is unproductive and inefficient as compared to the large-scale production system of the estate sector as they are tending to not achieve the standard principle in existing sustainability standard. This research was conducted to study about knowledge and perception of Principle 1-4 Malaysian Sustainable Oil Palm (MSPO) among independent smallholder in Malaysia. This study was conducted in Sungai Rambai, Melaka. The population size of this study is about 50 smallholders. For this study, 44 respondents had been samples. The questionnaires were distributed to the selected smallholders. Pearson correlation is used to analyze the relationship between independent and dependent variables which independent refer to knowledge and perceptions while the dependent variables is referring to principle 1-4 of MSPO. Finding from this study shows that the highest value of 43.6% from Transparency are explained by Perception and the lowest value of 19.4% from Management Commitment & Responsibility are also explained by Perception.