Participation of youth in Kelantan towards agro entrepreneurship in fertigation system

This research aimed to identify the youth participation in Kelantan towards agro entrepreneurship in fertigation system. The participation is further examine in detail considering to the knowledge, interest and perception of youth towards agro entrepreneurship in fertigation system. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the participation level of youth towards agro entrepreneurship in fertigation system, to study the attraction and repulsion factor of interest of youth towards fertigation system, and to study relationship between socio demographic factor (age, marital status, educational status, and profession), and perception of youth towards fertigation system. The problem statement of this study, the limited of agriculture land to implement agriculture and lack of involvement of youth in agro entrepreneurship. This study assist the government and other agencies to identify what are the factors related to youth participation towards fertigation system in agriculture, either it comes from their interest, knowledge or perception. This study used survey method using questionnaire as instrument to collect data. Sampling method used for this study is purposive sampling. The collected data were then analysed by using SPSS 21. Descriptive analysis and Chi-square Test were used to analyse the data obtained. The highest mean score obtained from this study was 3.97 in which it indicated that the youths have good knowledge regarding fertigation system. The result indicates that the youth in Kelantan has good level of knowledge, interest and good perception towards agro entrepreneurship in fertigation system.