Muda irrigation program : assessing its performances in poverty alleviation in rural Malaysia

Muda irrigation Scheme has been innovated as the most successful program in the agricultural sector in Malaysia, which was designed to increase rice productivity in the country, and also at the same time, reducing poverty among the farmers in rural Malaysia. Evidences suggest that at the initial sta...

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Main Authors:	Karim, A.H.M Zehadul, Uddin, Md. Sayed
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Language:	English
Published:	Serials Publications, New Delhi, India 2012
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General)
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spelling	iium-266532014-08-05T02:48:55Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/26653/ Muda irrigation program : assessing its performances in poverty alleviation in rural Malaysia Karim, A.H.M Zehadul Uddin, Md. Sayed H Social Sciences (General) Muda irrigation Scheme has been innovated as the most successful program in the agricultural sector in Malaysia, which was designed to increase rice productivity in the country, and also at the same time, reducing poverty among the farmers in rural Malaysia. Evidences suggest that at the initial stage, it had increased rice productivity by 2.4 times by introducing double cropping in the project areas (e.g. FAO and World Bank 1975). As a matter of fact, rice productivity through double cropping, directly benefited the affluent farmers in the rural areas and for that reason, many researchers pose this question saying that the project could not benefit the poor, as it simply increased pauperization and depeasantisation through a continuous process; and the poor simply becomes the victim of the circumstances. This paper focuses on the present condition of the farmers through studying a small village from socio-anthropological perspective and desires to provide information about farmers’ real situation from genealogical and holistic viewpoint, after three decades of glorious continuity of the Muda. More specifically, we want to reveal the poverty situation at the village level in present time, and would like to analyze it from cultural context, by generating empirical data from a village in Alor Setar. Serials Publications, New Delhi, India 2012-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/26653/4/muda_irrigation.pdf Karim, A.H.M Zehadul and Uddin, Md. Sayed (2012) Muda irrigation program : assessing its performances in poverty alleviation in rural Malaysia. Indian Journal of Human Rights and Social Justice, 7 (1-2). pp. 7-13. ISSN 0973-6271 http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=390&jtype=
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description	Muda irrigation Scheme has been innovated as the most successful program in the agricultural sector in Malaysia, which was designed to increase rice productivity in the country, and also at the same time, reducing poverty among the farmers in rural Malaysia. Evidences suggest that at the initial stage, it had increased rice productivity by 2.4 times by introducing double cropping in the project areas (e.g. FAO and World Bank 1975). As a matter of fact, rice productivity through double cropping, directly benefited the affluent farmers in the rural areas and for that reason, many researchers pose this question saying that the project could not benefit the poor, as it simply increased pauperization and depeasantisation through a continuous process; and the poor simply becomes the victim of the circumstances. This paper focuses on the present condition of the farmers through studying a small village from socio-anthropological perspective and desires to provide information about farmers’ real situation from genealogical and holistic viewpoint, after three decades of glorious continuity of the Muda. More specifically, we want to reveal the poverty situation at the village level in present time, and would like to analyze it from cultural context, by generating empirical data from a village in Alor Setar.
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author	Karim, A.H.M Zehadul Uddin, Md. Sayed
author_facet	Karim, A.H.M Zehadul Uddin, Md. Sayed
author_sort	Karim, A.H.M Zehadul
title	Muda irrigation program : assessing its performances in poverty alleviation in rural Malaysia
title_short	Muda irrigation program : assessing its performances in poverty alleviation in rural Malaysia
title_full	Muda irrigation program : assessing its performances in poverty alleviation in rural Malaysia
title_fullStr	Muda irrigation program : assessing its performances in poverty alleviation in rural Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Muda irrigation program : assessing its performances in poverty alleviation in rural Malaysia
title_sort	muda irrigation program : assessing its performances in poverty alleviation in rural malaysia
publisher	Serials Publications, New Delhi, India
publishDate	2012
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/26653/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/26653/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/26653/4/muda_irrigation.pdf
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