The poultry industry in Malaysia is actually a rare success story in the country’s food industry. To ensure both affordability to consumers and for food security reasons, the government has to subsidise production costs until input prices stabilise. From a food security perspective, this is akin to shooting ourselves in our own foot. Poultry should be the least of our food security problems because we have the capacity to produce a sufficient quantity to meet demand. The discussion on the nation’s food security will necessarily be about levels of self-sufficiency and import dependency of the major food items.

Source: The Edge Markets May 30, 2022 11:13 UTC