AGRICULTURE and MALAYSIA ECONOMY

REQUIREMENT OF FUTURE GLOBAL AGRICULTURE

SMALLHOLDERS

•   The subsistence farmers who cultivate their land for their own consumption.

•  That practice monocropping type of  subsistence farming.
  

National Agricultural Policy (NAP)

•      The latest third NAP (1998-2010)
•      Development programmes

•      Aim
•      To improve the food trade balance
•       Increase export of primary commodities
•       Ensure supply of raw materials for local down stream    industries

Crop Diversification Malaysia

•      Horizontal diversification
•      Vertical diversification

 CHALLENGES OF CROP DIVERSIFICATION

•      Need to reduce labour
•      Strengthen the competitiveness
•      Enhance private sector investment
•      Smallholders need to be transformed
•      More innovative & efficient agricultural practices