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of residents in a country should refers to the total population and not only
meant for the citizens.
A high impact agriculture project under the NAP is The Permanent Food
Production Park (TKPM) where the TKPM's areas are gazetted and rented to
entrepreneurs for commercial planting of fruits and vegetables. This program
has been developed to focus on food production, especially the production of
fruits and vegetables. Various efforts have been undertaken to promote the
production of organic vegetables at premium prices, increasing the area for
organic farming as well as enhancing the implementation of the Malaysian
Organic Scheme certification. The planted area under the TKPM project will be
increased to 38 thousand hectares, through increased crop intensity as well as
the use of efficient agricultural practices, high yielding breeds and the use of
latest technology.
To ensure adequate food supply, various efforts have been taken such as
strengthening research and development (R&D) activities, innovation and
enhancing technology utilization. This was stated in NAP 2011-2022 under
eight key ideas to support the transformation process of the agro-food
industry, off which is Modernization of R&D, technology and innovation.
Among the efforts undertaken was to enhancing R&D collaboration with the
industry through smart collaboration. Examples, MARDI have successfully
produced Starfruits hybrid clones (MSTAR 1), Bintang Mas. MARDI also
produce Fertigation System to protect agricultural production, including
during droughts.
In conclusion, self-sufficiency ratio, imports dependency ratio and per
capita consumption of selected agricultural commodities can be generated
from Supply and Utilization Accounts. Self- sufficiency ratio of 100 per cent or
more is good as this indicates sufficient production to meet domestic needs,
in contrast, for the import’s dependency ratio. The higher the rate of imports
dependency ratio indicates the greater supply of agricultural commodities that
need to be imported to meet domestic needs. On the other hand, per capita
consumption shows the amount of food consumed by each person within a
year. Overall, in 2017, Malaysia was able to supply agricultural commodities to
meet domestic needs. Of the 33 selected agricultural commodities, 16
recorded SSR exceeding 100 per cent. However, high imports dependency
ratio is only for three agricultural commodities namely mango (78.8%),
beef/buffalo (76.4%) and goat/lamb (89.3%). Malaysia still manage to balance
the needs as the country does not have to rely on imported agricultural
commodities to meet domestic needs.

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