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Agriculture and the Malaysian economy - Coggle Diagram
Agriculture and the Malaysian economy
Agriculture system in Malaysia
Plantation sector
Using modern technology and hired labor
etc- Oil palm
Single crop cultivation
Smallholder
Cultivate small areas
Limited technology
etc- Cocoa
Who is them?
The subsistence farmers who cultivate their land for their own consumption
Those that practise monocropping type of subsistence farming
Crop diversification in Malaysia
Vertical diversification
Upstream and downstream activities of a particular crops
Primary production to primary and secondary processing to finished products
Challenges:
Need to reduce labor
Strengthen the competitiveness
Need to enhance private sector investment
Smallholders need to be transformed
More innovative and efficient agricultural practices
Horizontal diversification
Being grown by the smallholder and the private sector
etc- oil palm, rubber, cocoa
Problem of agricultural sector
Not enough R & D in food crops
Increasing labor shortage, wages and cost of production as well as ageing farm labor and preference for non-farm jobs
R & D activity by various agencies:
MCB
Post-harvest technology
RRIM
Production of new forms of natural rubber
MARDI
Developing efficient farm management
PORIM
Breeding new high-yielding varieties