Keberkesanan Program Azam Tani Di daerah Kubang Pasu

The Azam Tani program is one of the Government Transformation Program (GTP) that is actively implemented in Kedah. Recently, there are various issues regarding the implementation and management of this program being debated at the highest level of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry. Hence, to open individually understanding who concern of support assistance program in the agricultural sector, the researcher intends to study the effectiveness of the Azam Tani Program especially in the Kubang Pasu District. The specific objectives are to evaluate the level of skills dominated by the participants, to study the factors influencing the development of the projects implementation by participants and to identify the changes of behaviour among participants before and after joining the Azam Tani Program. This study was carried out using questionnaires distributed to 50 respondents of Azam Tani Program. Data collection and analysis were analysed using Statistical Packages for Social Science
(SPSS) version 22.0. The analysis techniques used in this study are descriptive analysis, Pearson Correlation analysis and paired t test analysis. The analysis technique were based on each specific objectives. The findings show that there are still some participants who have not yet developed skills since joining this program. In fact, the effectiveness of the implementation of this program requires more emphasis on the factors of monitoring by extension officer, age, educational level, marital status and part-time worker. These factors are significant in analysis coleration at 5% and 10% confidence levels. In addition, there were changes of participant’s behaviour in savings, working hours and initiatives to diversify project inputs and outputs by participants of this program. Overall, the effectiveness of Azam Tani Program in the Kubang Pasu District was achieved but there were certain participant need more monitoring and guidance by agricultural department which is to improve their current
implementation productivity.