Intention of participation of youth in plantation

In general, Malaysia is well known as the world's largest producer and exporter of palm oil after Indonesia. However, the plantation sector in the country is often faced with a shortage of local manpower and it is also often talked about because it is still labor -intensive. The lack of youth involvement is the reason why the plantation sector lacks local energy even though this sector offers more employment opportunities. The objectives of this study are to identify the perceptions of youth on career in plantation and to investigate the relationship between perceptions of youth in plantation and intentions of youth to participate in plantation sector. Questionnaires were use to collect data from respondents consisting of youths studying at two universities, namely University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) and University Kuala Lumpur (Unikl), who are on average aged 15 to 40 years. A total of 116 respondents who have answered this questionnaire representing the youths out there. Data will be analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics software 23. The results showed that there were four subheadings of youth perceptions of career in plantation and the relationship between perceptions of youth in plantation and intentions of youth to participate in plantation sector gives a moderate positive correlation of 0.598 on work environment perception and low positive correlation on economic fortune and social facilities.