Advancing the Transfer of Agricultural Technology & Research : Malaysia’s Perspective

1. Advancing the Transfer of Agricultural Technology & Research: Malaysia’s Perspective

2. Basic Input Factors • Land • Labour • Basic Input Factors • Infrastructure • Collateralized risk- free capital • Labour TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION MALAYSIA’S ASPIRATIONS BY 2020 • Knowledge based Critical Success Factors • Creativity • High-income • Knowledge-economy • Technology • Market

3. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION MALAYSIA’S 4 PILLARS OF NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION VISION 2 0 2 0 Preservation and enhancement of unity in diversity 1Malaysia People First, Performance Now April 2009 Effective delivery of Government services Government Transformation Programme (GTP) 6 National Key Result Areas (NKRAs) January 2010 New Economic Model: A high income, inclusive and sustainable nation Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) 8 Strategic Reform Initiatives (SRIs) March 2010 Smooth Implementation of governments development programme 10th Malaysia Plan (2010-2015) Macroeconomic growth targets & expenditure allocation June 2010

4. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION MAJOR GOALS High income Inclusiveness Sustainability Reduce crime Fight corruption Improve student outcomes Raise living standards Improve rural basic infrastructure Improve urban public transport • Move up the value chain • Raise capacity for knowledge and innovation • Address socio-economic inequalities • Improve quality of life • Strengthen institutional and implementation capacity People First, Performance Now

5. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION Malaysian Agriculture Research Development Institute Body entrusted by the Government of Malaysia to carry out R&D in the Food and Agriculture and agriculture-based industry • Research focus: • Cloning of food (rice, coco, cassava, sweet potatoes etc and non-food plant varieties, • New breed of animals), • Food processing, post-harvest activities • Other research areas include precision farming and Environmental sustainability. • Other activities: • Providing services to nurture agriculture and food related entrepreneurs • Product and services meeting standard Quality control

6. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION MARDI’s Achievements • More than 90% of Malaysia’s rice granary areas • developed by MARDI. • More than 30 rice varieties to fulfill the need of the nations. • (contribute to RM500 million per year income to farmers. • Develop technologies to export of pineapple and papaya • amounted to RM255 million a year. • 48 Small and Medium Industries used MARDI technology with • the export amount of more than RM77M

7. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AUTHORITY (FAMA) • A marketing agency which was established under Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry to monitor, coordinate, control and develop product marketing of Malaysian agriculture, including import and export. • FAMA main function is : • Coordinate agriculture marketing activity both in private • sector or department / government agency • Improve marketing system and expand new market of • Malaysian agriculture development • Collaborating with private sector and department / • government agency to create efficient and effective • agriculture marketing system • Develop an efficient management in agriculture industry, • marketing activity or agricultural products processing • Involve directly in agriculture industry, especially in • marketing activity and products processing.

8. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION Challenges faced by Malaysia’S Agriculture SECTOR • Increase crop productivity • Value added food products and foods • Emergence of new strains of pest and diseases • Development of new varieties and breeds • Food security BIOTECHNOLOGY MEET THE CHALLENGES & IMPROVE COMPETITIVENESS

9. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION National Biotechnology Policy VISION Position biotechnology as the new economic engine to enhance prosperity and wellness of the nation by 2020 • OBJECTIVES • Generate new growth engine for the nation by creating value that is competitive, innovative and consistent with Vision 2020 • Formulate the economic, legislative and regulatory frameworks that will support core biotechnology sectors • Identify implementation strategies in order to establish Malaysia as a competitive nation with leading edge businesses • Develop biotechnology to enhance healthcare and medical support for a better quality of life for all Malaysians • Extract greater value from agriculture and natural resources by utilizing Malaysia’s unique biodiversity / natural environment

10. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION MODERN agriculture technology Precision Agriculture (ICT) Organic Farming Crop rotation, Integrated pest management • Modern Agriculture • Higher yield • Sustainability Mechanization / Automation Nuclear methods (Mutagenesis) Genetic Modification Tempering Genetic trade Bio-based Technology

11. Plant Biotechnology TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION Development Work at Agri-Biotechnology Institute (ABI) R & D in Agro-Biotechnology Livestock Biotechnology Human capital development Value add technologies and products to agricultural products Produce new, innovative and competitive products & technologies to market Food Biotechnology • New plant variety • Biofertiliser & biopesticide • Gene discovery • Transgenics plant • Metabolomics • Marker assisted selection • Bioinformatics • Functional food • Advance reproductive biotechnology • Nano-biotechnology • Vaccine & diagnostics • Food safety & security

12. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION ICT FOR Agriculture Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) National Implementation Program WSN Overview Fastest Growing Market in Asia (West Technology Research Solutions ,May 2007) • New Ways of Doing Things: • Real Time information • Pervasive • Precise Information • Fast & Accurate information 10 Emerging Technology that will Change the World (Technology Review, Feb 2003) • For Better Quality of Life: • Life enrichment • Improve productivity • Enhance Security • Environment conservation ..Wireless sensor networking chip market grew 300% in 2010.. (EE Times, March 2011) New Sources of Growth

13. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION Precision Agriculture • Provide complete value chain from seed to shelf • in the agriculture sector • Spearheading application of ICT (Wireless • Sensor Network) in agriculture for yield • improvement • Establish portal Agribazaar for farmers to sell • their produce directly to avoid middle-man. • Automation of agriculture industry using decision • Support system ICT in agriculture for productivity improvement Portal for farmers to sell their products

14. “Seed to Shelf” Agriculture Solutions TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION Precision Agriculture • Solving in-field variability • Reduce input cost • Reduce operation losses Upstream i-Logistic & AgriOffice Midstream • Reduce dependency on middleman • Order fulfilment, inventory and logistics management, and customer relationship management (CRM) AgriBazaar 2.0 Downstream • Virtual/Online retail business • 24/7. Beyond brick and mortar • Software as a Service (SaaS)

15. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION Wireless Sensor for plant monitoring: Complete solution • Malaysia introduces Integrated • hardware solution: • To reduce implementation cost • Simple and easy for deployment Communication Devices for wireless agriculture data transmission Environmental sensors – Moisture, pH, Temperature and Chemical sensors. Networked of Environmental Data Collection Components, Communication Devices and Decision Support System to realise PA.

16. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION Fish Forecasting through satellite technology • Increase in fuel cost, forces new method in the fishing industry • Fish forecasting predicts the location of fish in abundance • Make use of fish food (chlorophyl) and sea water • temperature from Satellite data. • Collaboration between the remote sensing agency and fish • development authority (LKIM) • Outcome: • 9Millions USD save in diesel fuel permonth to fishermen • The fish search time reduced by 30% to give 20% increase in their income

17. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION nuclear technology FOR agriculture • Mutagenesis is a techniques to improves plant’s productivity using • nuclear technology • Low radiation level is applied to the seeds that causes it to • be pest/disease resistant, high yield, better taste and short gestation period. • It is proven to be safe and IAEA approved. • Nuclear Malaysia focuses on increasing the production of seed to cater for • Increased demand by the market Bioreactor for growing young plants

18. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION Mutagenesis method used to improve Banana and pineapple production/yield Banana Bearing fruit between 3 to 5 years (cf 7-10 years for normal fruit) Can produce 5000 new trees per month High resistant to disease (Fusarium and wilt) Mutagenesis in biorector Pineapple Higher sugar content (15% higher) Gestation period 3-5 years (cf 7-10 years) High resistant to diseases Capacity in production ~10,000/month

19. TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION Eurycomalongifolia (Tongkat Ali) LabisiaPumila (Kacip Fatima) OrthosiphonStamineus (MisaiKucing) PhyllanthusNiruri (DukungAnak) AndrographisPaniculata (HempeduBumi) Some local herbals found to have medicinal value

20. Putrajaya Kota Kinabalu Bukit Gambir TRANSFORMATION OF A NATION MDec Portal: e-pasartani@FAMA for farmers • Farmers/Consumers source commodities online from 278 Agri Market sites at a lower price through Agriculture Delivery Channel • Registered farmers and trading farmers able to source market via e-sms@FAMA and increase profit margin by eliminating middle layers • Farming information can be viewed according to geographic parameters • e-pasartani@FAMA uses MyKad-authenticated information to generate demographic and geographic data of traders. • These initiatives have enormously contributed in commodities demand and supply matching, in particular vegetables and fruit commodities.

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