Assalamualaikum and hello everyone. Today's topic is about Innovation And Challenges In Malaysian Agriculture. There are 2 institute that involve in Malaysian agriculture research. First is government sector which including MARDI, MPOB, MCB, and MRB. Next is private sector which including Sime Darby, IOI, United Plantation Bhd, Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd, Boustead Plantation Bhd, FELDA and FELCRA.

In Malaysia, there are several types of plants and animal that are been focus for a research such as:

Types of crops	Details
Oil palm	-golden crop in Malaysia -Applied Agricultural Resources Sdn. Bhd. (KL Kepong Group) has developed:                 a) the Dumpy.Yamgambi.AVROS semi-dwarf oil palm hybrid varieties which facilitate harvesting with improved high yield potential and extends the economic life of the crop                                 b) potential high yield clones from tissue culture
Rubber	-MRB  has developed high yield and disease resistant clones producing >3500 kilo rubber ha-1 yr-1 -MRB introduced new technologies : 1) Puncture tapping: bark is quickly pierced with sharp needles, enables the same worker to tap more trees per day. Hormonal stimulation (etheral) 2) New latex-timber clones (LTC) of the RRIM200 series Trunk harvested for timber industry 3) Vitamin E has also been extracted from the latex.
Cocoa	-production of cocoa was declined, so MCB had establish  1)Agrobiotechnology to improve productivity and  production        efficiency, 2)Biotechnology enhanced- quality  of  cocoa   products  with  respect  to  safety  and  health,  and 3)Industrial and pharmaceutical biotechnology to obtain new products such as useful bioactive compounds from the cocoa tree, associated microbes in the cocoa environment and cocoa waste.
paddy	-aims to raise the yield to 10 tons ha-1  with the use of new technology. -Popular varieties: MR220, MR219, MR211, MR81 -Vita-grow:doubling paddy yield -Zappa: enhance rapid germination

The future challenges in agriculture are the labour, price : price of fertilizers, seeds, tools and equipments ,crop choice : oil palm and rubber,resouces.

Agricultural technology :

a)Plant cell and tissue culture techniques & genetic engineering to complement conventional plant breeding

b)the use of plant cell cultures to enhance the development of new and innovative products including metabolites such as pharmaceuticals, nutriceuticals and food additives,

c)Embryo manipulation technology and the use of genetically engineered vaccines

d)Incorporation of robotics and artificial intelligence as well as computer modeling, to reduce labour

e)Advance processing and packaging systems