Malaysia: Planting own vegetables won’t cut it
Yes, that is a good home gardening hobby. But are you the minister of household hobbies?
Malaysiakini
Mar 17, 2026
Excerpt:
Nostromo: Anyone who knows a little about basic agriculture can see how flawed Agriculture and Food Security Minister Mohamad Sabu’s idea of growing vegetables at home is.
For urban farming to have any meaningful impact, you need scale and consistency.
Take a small backyard behind a terrace house. How many plants can you grow?
Assuming you succeed in growing vegetables, how long until harvest? After harvesting, how long does it take to regenerate?
A small home garden, if done properly, may only produce vegetables for household consumption every two to three months.
And what about the quality of the produce? Is it even consistent enough for consumption?
Let us assume you can plant at scale and generate sufficient produce. Where would these greens be stored?
Without adequate storage, the produce will spoil. Urban farming is complex. It is not as simple as “tanam sayur di belakang rumah” (plant vegetables in your backyard).
Yes, that is a good home gardening hobby. But are you the minister of household hobbies?
You are talking about national food security. Scale is key. Even if thousands of civil servants do this, it would not produce meaningful supply.
At best, each civil servant might have homegrown vegetables for dinner once every two or three months. Great, you saved RM6 every three months.
Mat Sabu cited countries such as Singapore that invest heavily in urban farming. But those are high-tech urban farms implemented at scale with technology and funding to support them.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/malaysia-planting-own-vegetables-wont-cut-it/
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