MULTIFUNCTIONALITY OF AGRICULTURE IN MALAYSIA BY MOHD FARID BIN JAAFAR NG ONG KAI CHUAN TEOH KAI XUAN A research project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS (HONS) FINANCIAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN FACULTY OF ACCOUNTANCY AND MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC SEPTEMBER 2009
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DECLARATION
We hereby declare that: 1. This UBEZ 3026 Undergraduate Project is the end result of our own work and that due acknowledgement has been given in the references to ALL sources of information be they printed, electronic, or personal. 2. No portion of the research project has been submitted in support of any application for any other degree or qualification of this or any other university, or other institutes of learning. 3. Equal contribution has been made by each group member in completing this research project. 4. The word count of this research project is 12,634.
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Name of Student: Mohd Farid Bin Jaafar Ng Ong Kai chuan Teoh Kai Xuan
Student ID: 07UKB02453 07UKB00543 07UKB02530
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to thank our supervisor, Mr. Eugene Pek Chuen Khee for sharing the useful advices and supportive guidelines. We appreciate the valuable time that he spend and shared with us whenever we need his assistance. Without these, our research project could not be done smoothly and successfully. Besides, we would also like thank all the respondents who spend