Malaysia has sufficient food supplies, with rice reserves lasting six months and local white rice maintained at RM2.60/kg. Essential food prices remain...
Malaysia’s grated coconut prices surged nearly 38% in 2025, marking the sharpest increase among essential consumer items, while fresh coconut milk and...
Malaysia is using cloud seeding to tackle drought in key northern rice-growing regions after low rainfall and depleted dam levels delayed paddy...
Malaysia has raised its rice reserve stock to 300,000 tonnes to strengthen food security amid global energy and geopolitical risks. The move...
Sabah has sufficient rice supplies despite temporary shortages in supermarkets in Sepanggar, which authorities attribute to panic buying rather than actual supply...
Malaysia plans to increase its rice stockpile to cover nine months of demand as a precaution amid the Iran–US–Israel conflict. Authorities say...
Malaysia faces tighter rice supplies as 2024 paddy output fell to 2.06 MMT, cutting the self-sufficiency ratio to 52.9%. Lower acreage, weak...
The Malaysian government has allocated RM7 million to upgrade irrigation infrastructure in key rice-producing areas to mitigate drought impacts, Deputy Agriculture Minister...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. defended the sustainability of his administration’s P20-per-kilo rice initiative, asserting in a media interview in Kuala Lumpur that...