Tenth Malaysia Plan 2011-2015.

Tenth Malaysia Plan 2011-2015 is a national multi-sectoral strategic plan prepared to transform Malaysia in a high income and developed nation during the next 10 years. During the Tenth Plan period, Malaysia will focus its economic growth efforts on twelve National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) chosen on the basis of their contribution to high income, sustainability and inclusiveness.
To make agriculture more productive efforts will focus on high value agriculture, including swiftlet farming, aquaculture, seaweed, sago, ornamental fish, herbs and spices, organic fruits and vegetables, mushroom and floriculture. The goal will be to increase their contribution to GDP to 2% by 2015 compared to 1% in 2009. Strategies to achieve this will include setting up agriculture consortiums and cooperatives to reap the benefits of scale, encourage adoption of accredited practices by farmers, fishermen and agropreneurs, and strengthen marketing through contract farming and strategic alliances; reviewing and streamlining current regulation and procedures, particularly in the swiftlet, aquaculture and herbal industries to attract greater investments and participation from private sector; promoting innovation-based growth and production processes that utilise modern farm technology and ICT; providing adequate and specific infrastructure, facilities and logistics to support value addition activities based on availability and proximity of resources, particularly in the designated Permanent Food Production Parks and Aquaculture Industrial Zones; and intensifying collaborative research efforts with agriculture research institutes to bring about innovation in the production processes, disease control, safety and quality control, including development of new high-value added products.
To increase sustainability, work will focus on developing a long-term strategy for water resource management to achieve water security; protecting rivers from pollution through strengthening the enforcement on industrial effluents and sewage discharge regulations, revising the current Water Quality Index to incorporate additional parameters such as biological parameters; developing the National Marine Water Quality Index; expanding outreach and awareness programmes targeting various segments of society; restructuring solid waste management based on increasing support to local government, closing, rehabilitating, or upgrading landfills across the nation, opening of disposal and treatment facilities, and establishment of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle programmes. Further, the Government has introduced the AFFIRM framework, which outlines the government’s approach towards creating a comprehensive ecosystem for environmental sustainability.
In addition, efforts to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems will include encouraging good agriculture practices, agronomic management and mechanization especially among smallholders; and centralizing procurement of agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides to lower input costs for smallholders; including local communities in conservation efforts; and introducing the Access and Benefit Sharing framework to ensure that profits derived from application of traditional knowledge to develop medicinal, pharmaceutical, and bio-technological products will be distributed fairly and equitably.
To reduce rural poverty efforts will focus on increasing sustainability of income in the agriculture sector through the concept of contract farming; increasing land productivity and yield through land consolidation; capacity building activities and training will be given to assist fishermen and farmers to increase their productivity; petrol and diesel subsidies as well as better infrastructure equipment and facilities will be provided to fishermen community; under the entrepreneurship development scheme, start-up capital as well as training courses will be provided to develop more entrepreneurs and sustainable small-scale agro-businesses; specific programmes will be introduced to encourage greater youth participation in agricultural activities; and establishment of centrally managed plantations, where poor families will be given shares of the estate.
In the area of climate change Malaysia will adopt a dual strategy consisting of adaptation efforts to protect economic growth and development factors from the impact of climate change and mitigation strategies to reduce emission of greenhouse gases. Specifically, these activities will include development of an updated risk framework, future infrastructure investments that are climate resilient, enhanced capacity in the field of climate prediction and modelling to develop Malaysia-specific and sector-specific knowledge; creating stronger incentives for investments in renewable energy; promoting energy efficiency to encourage productive use of energy; improving solid waste management; conserving forests and wildlife; and reducing emissions to improve air quality.
Regarding governance, the ministries and agencies responsible for facilitating and delivering top national priorities will be strengthened. Top talent, funding and leadership attention will be redirected to these agencies. In addition, several agencies will have their mandates refined or expanded to reflect new priorities elaborated in the Tenth Plan. Besides the Implementation Coordination Unit of the Prime Minister’s Department, other monitoring and delivery units to manage the delivery of specific outcomes include the Project Management Unit, Performance Management and Delivery Unit and the new Economic Delivery Unit.