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Innovation and challenges in Malaysian agriculture - Coggle Diagram
Innovation and challenges in Malaysian agriculture
5 challenges facing by future agriculture and food security:
Food waste from spoilage to produce culled by retailers
Demographic changes
Land management problems resulting from tillage to monoculture to improper grazing practices
Constraints on resources from fossing fuel to water to phosphorus
Government policy
Research institutes in Malaysia
Private sector
SIME DARBY
IOI
FELDA
FELCRA
BOASTED PLANTATIONS BHD
Government organization
MCB
MRB
MPOB
FRIM
MARDI
Application of precision farming
Betterfarm yield forecast
Reduce in labor requirement
Precise control of disease
Precise control of pest
Future challenges in agriculture:
Labor requirement
Cost of production
Competition from producing countries
Product demand and price stability
Agricultural resources availability
Research in:
Rubber
Research by MRB
Research approach
Upstream
Crop management unit
Crop improvement and protection unit
Biotechnology unit
Downstream
Advance rubber technology unit
Latex and Science unit
Engineering and product design unit
New technology by MRB:
Puncture tapping
Hormonal stimulation (Etheral)
New latex-timber clones (LTC)
Vitamin E
Cocoa
Research by MCB
A research based on Agrobiotechnology (improvement):
To enhanced quality of cocoa products with respect to safety and health
To obtain new produvts of bioactive compounds from cocoa tree, associated microbes in the cocoa environment and from cocoa waste
Productivity and production efficiency
Fruit
Production of new varieties
Yield improvement
Fertilizer and water efficiency
Oil palm
Research by MPOB
Future improvement:
Transgenic technology
Mechanization farm approach
Biodiesel projects
Added value products of oil palm
AJIB fertilization
Use Hybrid (Dura x Pisifera = Tenera)
Flower
Tulip research in Bukit Maxwell
Tissue culture used for mass-production of orchid seedlings
Vegetables
Organic vegetables
Production of new varieties
Paddy
Vita-grow product
Zappa product
Livestock
Done by FELDA, RISDA, FELCRA
Hybridization of livestock:
New breed of beef cattle (Brahmas)
Buffaloes
New sheep breed (Malin)
Boer goats
Liverstock
Research on deer and ostrich
Research by UPM and MARDI
Fisheries
Government encourage entrepreneurs adopt aquaculture by constructing ponds and raising fishes in net cages in rivers, lakes and seashores
Agricultural technology:
Plant cell culture technique
Embryo manipulation technology
Tissue culture techniques and genetic engineering
Advance processing and packaging systems