Agriculture in Malaysia

A number of crops are grown for domestic purpose such as bananas, coconuts, durian, pineapples, rice and rambutan.

[2] Malaysia maintains a humidity level around ninety percent because of its location close to the equator.

The ministry has services such as collecting, analysing and restoring information and agricultural data through science and providing the report to farmers.

[2] Even with this high production, Malaysia still only produces eighty percent of what it needs to support itself and must import the rest.

[11] This chart displays a predicted relationship between consumption of rice, the amount planted, and the increase in population from 2008 up until 2030.

Malaysia has earned a good reputation around the world for its high quality and well priced rubber products.

][citation needed] However, an outbreak at top glove factories on 25 November 2020 had a negative effect on their trade.

[17] Rubber manufacturers in Malaysia include local smallholders, plantations, multinationals and joint ventures with the United States, Europe, and Japan.

[18] Malaysia has a total rubber area of 1.07 million hectares, out of which 7.21 percent is owned by plantation companies.

[14] Ninety percent of production is accounted by smallholders who generally hold less than 40 acres of agricultural land.

[17][14] These statistics remain a major concern for the industry as these smallholders tend to move to other economic activities when the rubber price goes down.