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Food security: Self sufficiency of rice in Malaysia

Alias, Emmy Farha and Mohamed Arshad, Fatimah and Mohd Noh, Kusairi and Tasrif, Muhammad (2011) Food security: Self sufficiency of rice in Malaysia. In: National Conference on the Tenth Malaysia Plan: Transformation Towards a High Income Advanced Economy, 18th July 2011, Seri Pacific Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Malaysia’s stance on food security is largely translated in terms of achieving self‐sufficiency in rice production at about 65‐70% of the local consumption. Since Malaysia does not have the comparative advantage in rice production, it implements a wide range of market interventions to achieve the intended level of rice production. The policy instruments include among others: guaranteed minimum price for paddy, price control, price and input subsidies and import monopoly. These interventionist instruments may not be sustainable in the long term as they incur high budgetary burden to the government, misallocation of resources and liberalization demand from WTO. The industry faces challenges in terms of land competition for urbanization and industrial uses and declining soil fertility due to heavy use of chemical fertilizer. This paper examines the influence of the fertilizer and cash subsidies, as well as land conversion and fertility on the level of self sufficiency in rice. A system dynamics model is applied to analyse the causal and feedback relationships of these variables in the paddy production system framework. The study shows that Malaysia may not be able to sustain the targeted self sufficiency level without adequate R&D to address the production constraints particularly below‐optimum productivity and the threats of climate change. The consumption of rice on the other hand continues to rise due to increase in population.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information: Organized by International Journal of Management Studies (IJMS), Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia Institute of Economic Research (MIER) and UUM Press
Uncontrolled Keywords: Paddy and rice; Malaysia; system dynamics; policy analysis.
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Divisions: UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User: Mrs. Norazmilah Yaakub
Date Deposited: 27 Dec 2011 07:28
Last Modified: 27 Dec 2011 07:28
URI: https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/4477

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