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Agriculture

EXCLUDING the cash crop of oil palm, Malaysia’s agriculture sector has not excited investors and large corporations. For the longest time, the sector has been dominated by smallholders and hardly has there been any listed company involved in say large scale vegetable farming.

But some changes are happening.

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