resources sustainability and environmental safety. The already-in-place New
Agricultural Policies serve as the framework for agricultural development in the
country in the new millennium. These NAPs were promulgated with the principal
thrusts areas: (a) Meeting national food requirements – through large food
production by the private sector; (b) Enhancing competitiveness and profitability in
agriculture and forestry promoting globally competitive industries in agriculture and
forestry, developing world competitive outlook and an export culture; (c) Capitalizing
on the product value-chain by reorientation from commodity-based to product-based
production and marketing, capital and technology intensive agricultural production
system and less labour intensive enterprises as well as cultivation of high-value
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crops and forest species; (d) Enhancing the integrated development of the food and
industrial crop; (e) Strengthening requisite economic foundation, upgrading quality of
human resources, development of indigenous R&D capabilities and technology,
namely modern infrastructure, business support services, financing and incentives
and an enabling institutional framework; and (f) Adopting and emphasizing
sustainable development rules and regulations, and strengthening incentives.
Keywords: Malaysian agriculture, food security and safety, export oriented
agricultural produce.
“If there is no man,
there will be no woman,
if there is no agriculture,
there will be no mankind”
(Baki B. Bakar 2006a)
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