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Food Security in Malaysia
Rice (Oryza
sativa L.) is one of the staple foods in the world and is an important crop
for more than half of the global population. The rice production is
predominantly in Asia and this includes Malaysia. Rice production is used
directly for food for humans and most of this as boiled white rice. Malaysia is
just about 70% self sufficient in rice production and
has to import rice to meet the shortfall and this self-sufficiency level is set
to increase to 90% in 2010, under the Ninth Malaysia Plan (BERNAS, 2011). This
means that we are not self sufficient in producing our own staple food and to
overcome this we have to import about 30% to 35% annually from other countries
such as Thailand.
The worst case scenario that might happen is when the
exporting countries cut down or didn’t want to export their rice due to certain
circumstances, thus this situation could create havoc in the local market and
excessive buying will happen. Therefore, we need to achieve above than
the self sufficient level so that we do not cling to other countries for rice
and other foods.
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| rice research centre in UPM |
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