Microsoft Word 12 The Malaysian Agricultural Industry in the New Millennium

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call for new strategize plans from the view point of natural

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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