Tag: Smallholders

Sarawak's agricultural transformation faces critical execution challenges as institutional fragmentation, aging extension services, inadequate market access infrastructure, and neglect of local agri-SMEs undermine the Premier's vision of a commercially vibrant, high-income farming sector capable of achieving net food exporter status by 2030.

Sarawak's ambitious agribusiness transformation under PCDS 2030 has delivered measurable economic gains, with the sector contributing RM15.1 billion to state GDP in 2024 and employing 247,400 people, yet persistent governance gaps in contract farming, NCR land tenure, and institutional fragmentation threaten to confine progress to isolated pockets rather than achieve broad-based rural prosperity.