Participation towards Livestock Industry among Youth in Kelantan

This research aims to identify the participation towards livestock industry among youth in Kelantan. The participation is further examined in detail by considering to the knowledge, interest, and perception of the livestock industry. The main objective for this study are to identify the level of knowledge of youth in Kelantan towards livestock industry, to study the interest factor of youth in Kelantan to participate in the livestock industry and to determine the relationships between socioeconomic and demographic factor (age, education course, occupation and marital status) with perception factor of youth in Kelantan towards livestock industry. Importation of livestock products is a major problem in the livestock industry in Malaysia. Moreover, there was a lot of manpower from local youth but in the livestock industry, the manpower is very limited. Thus, this study assists the government and any other agencies to know details the problems why local youth are less interested in participating in livestock sector especially in the animal farm area. This survey targeted all youths in Kelantan. The sample consists 100 respondents from youth in Kelantan in this study whether to respond or not to a questionnaire that was given. The study used a survey method using a questionnaire as the instrument to collect data from the survey respondents. This questionnaire was designed to fulfill the objective. All the collected data were analysed by using SPSS version 21.0. Methods that were involved are Statistical Descriptive and Chi-Square Test. The results indicate that the youths in Kelantan have a high knowledge level (mean = 4.4475) about livestock industry, has the high-interest level (mean = 4.2450) due to attraction factors and have a favorable perception (mean = 3.9125) towards livestock industry. It can be concluded that the youths in Kelantan were aware of the importance of livestock industry but they are not given enough encouragement to fully immerse themselves in this field.