TY - JFULL AU - Golnaz Rezai and Zainalabidin Mohamed and Mad Nasir Shamsudin PY - 2011/8/ TI - Informal Education and Developing Entrepreneurial Skills among Farmers in Malaysia T2 - International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences SP - 905 EP - 913 VL - 5 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1711 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 55, 2011 N2 - The Malaysian government is promoting entrepreneurship development skills amongst farmers through informal courses. These courses will concentrate on teaching managerial skills as inevitable means for small farms to succeed by making farmers more creative and innovative. Therefore it is important to assess the effect of informal agri-entrepreneurial training in developing entrepreneurship among the farmers in Malaysia. Seven hundred and ninety six farmers (796) farmers were interviewed via structured questionnaire to define their opinion on whether the current informal educational and training establishments are sufficient to teach and develop entrepreneurial skills. Factor analysis and logic regression analysis were used to determine the motivating factors and predict their impact on the development of entrepreneurial skills. The result from the factor analysis led us to investigate the association between these factors and farmers- opinions about the development of entrepreneurial skills and traits through participating in informal entrepreneurship training or education. The outcome has shown us that the importance of informal training to promote entrepreneurship among farmers is crucial. The training should be intensified to encourage farmers to not only focus on the modern technologies but also on the fundamental changes in their attitude towards agriculture as a business. DOA: KMO: Kaiser- Meyer- Olkin Test MOA: Ministry of Agriculture NMP: Ninth Malaysia Plan NAP: Third National Agricultural Policy (2000-2010) ER -