Agriculture in the Malaysian Region
Agriculture in the Malaysian Region

Author: R.D. Hill

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9971696010

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Malaysia's transition from a country dependent on agriculture and mining to an industrialized society is readily apparent, but the process of change remains poorly understood. When R.D. Hill began studying agriculture in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei in the 1960s, he found swiddening, market-gardening, semi-commercial wet-rice cultivation and large scale plantations. Today, Malaysian agriculture has become highly capital-intensive and increasingly specialized, and many forms of production have all but disappeared. Once dependent on the export of primary products such as tin, rubber and palm oil, Malaysia is now an industrialized, middle income country. Singapore has nearly abandoned its primary sector. This completely revised edition of Hill's 1982 study, with two lengthy new chapters, explains the evolution of agriculture in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore over the last forty years, with particular attention to the agro-ecosystems of the major crops.

Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics
Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1993-02-01

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 0309047498

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Rainforests are rapidly being cleared in the humid tropics to keep pace with food demands, economic needs, and population growth. Without proper management, these forests and other natural resources will be seriously depleted within the next 50 years. Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics provides critically needed direction for developing strategies that both mitigate land degradation, deforestation, and biological resource losses and help the economic status of tropical countries through promotion of sustainable agricultural practices. The book includes: A practical discussion of 12 major land use options for boosting food production and enhancing local economies while protecting the natural resource base. Recommendations for developing technologies needed for sustainable agriculture. A strategy for changing policies that discourage conserving and managing natural resources and biodiversity. Detailed reports on agriculture and deforestation in seven tropical countries.

Agricultural Modernization, Poverty, and Inequality
Agricultural Modernization, Poverty, and Inequality

Author: David S. Gibbons

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Monograph on the impact of the green revolution on income distribution in rural areas of Indonesia and Malaysia - analyses variations in technological change and agricultural policy, considers the relevance of farm size, the case of tenant farmers and agricultural workers, social change and persistent ruralpoverty, and comcludes that the green revolution has tended to aggravate inequalities in agrarian structure. Bibliography pp. 213 to 219, graphs, maps and statistical tables.

Peasants in the Making
Peasants in the Making

Author: Diana Wong

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 997198864X

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This study of the so-called Green Revolution in the rice bowl region of Malaysia aims to provide an interpretation of recent changes in the Malaysian agrarian structure, and to make an analytical and theoretical contribution to the long-standing intellectual debate on the agrarian question. By joining the micro-world of household social structure and economy to the macro-world of changes in production relations, it traces out a specific trajectory of agrarian development in Malaysia.