Sys Rev Pharm 2020;11(12):1032-1038 A muAltifacHetediresvietwojourrnialcinathelfieOld ofvphaermracvy iew Of Poverty Eradication Through Agricultural In Sabah, Malaysia Romzi Ationg, Rose Patsy Tibok, Madiyem Layapan, UAndivreerassitiTMotaul,aJyasniaeSWaboanhg, KoontaLKininga&baAlulv,iSeaLboahS,inMValoaiysia Corresponding Author:
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[email protected] ABSTRACT This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the rural poverty eradication Keywords: Sabah; North Borneo; rural society; rural poverty eradication; efforts undertaken by the Sabah state government by way of various agricultural- contract farming; agriculture. based solutions. The discussion examines local attitudes, behaviour and acceptance towards the contract farming system as a tool for agricultural Correspondence: commercialisation and the improvement efforts targeted at effecting changes in *Corresponding author:
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[email protected] rural society structures and uplifting the rural standard of living. Sabah’s administrative history, its rural and agricultural sector economic development, and the social structures of rural society are deliberated upon extensively since these elements are found to be intricately interwoven in the incidence of rural poverty and the acceptance or willingness by rural communities to participate in poverty eradication programmes such as contract farming. Based on document reviews, participation in contract farming programmes is found to be static (neither increasing or declining) with the exception of rubber planting and paddy production which showed significant increase. INTRODUCTION which allowed the Sultanate to exercise power over a vast Sabah, referred to for centuries by outsiders as North area in northwest Borneo (roughly comprising present- Borneo, is strategically located within the rapidly day Brunei and the Malaysian states of Sabah and developing Southeast Asian region.