Microsoft Word 12 The Malaysian Agricultural Industry in the New Millennium
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Table 7. Progress and expected progress in land development and consolidation and rehabilitation in MDP8 and MDP9 of Malaysia*. ________________________________________________________________
* Agricultural Statistics, Min. of Agric & Agro-based Industry, Malaysia (2007) ** In hectares.
ISSUES IN MODERN MALAYSIAN AGRICULTURE Malaysian agriculture is at the crossroads. While there is the need to modernise agriculture, the prevailing dualism in Malaysian agriculture, where the needs for small holders’ agriculture may differ from those large-scale farming of the estates, the government-promulgated NAPs need to cater for both. Despite facing with the vagaries of labour supply, agriculture remains an important part of the national economy in the new millennium for the increasingly burgeoning populace with the challenge to provide both food security and safety, and sustainable development and wealth creation. The primary issues besieging Malaysian agriculture in the new millennium include ensuring food security and food safety for the populace with parallel and determined effort to sustain, and where possible, increase exports of agricultural produce. Albeit the apparent decline in contribution of agricultural sector to the Malaysian national economy, the development of agriculture in Malaysia, faces three major challenges in new millennium (i) Food Scarcity and Food Security (FSFS); (ii) Agricultural Sustainability; and (iii) Environmental Health. More importantly, the apparently perennial overriding concern of prime importance arising from the above include (i) How do we feed the increasingly burgeoning populace from domestic sources of food yet attaining sustainability in production and maintaining environmental health? (ii) How does Malaysia divorce itself from increasingly dependent on food P P
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imports? To the producers and farmers, the relevant question would be: How do we increase productivity and profit without incurring extra production cost? The environmentalists and nature lovers, they would pose question such as “How does sustainability in food production affect environmental health?” The answers to these questions and related issues may impact the ensuing development and progress in agriculture in Malaysia.
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