KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 — The government aims to achieve a pork self-sufficiency rate (SSR) of 90 per cent by 2030, up from 67.8 per cent in 2024, as part of efforts to strengthen the country’s food security.
Deputy Agriculture and Food Security Minister Chan Foong Hin said the current rate indicates that domestic demand still relies partly on imported pork.
He said local production is being strengthened through several measures, including the export of live pigs from Sarawak to Peninsular Malaysia and improved prevention of animal and zoonotic diseases to boost farm productivity.
“To address the impact of fluctuations in global livestock feed prices on production costs and market prices, we continuously monitor live pig selling prices at the farm level as well as feed costs,” he said during the question and answer session at Dewan Negara today.
Chan said that in 2025, the average farm-gate price of live pigs was around RM17.80 per kg.
He said the government will also encourage large-scale, commercial cultivation of grain corn domestically to reduce 30 per cent dependence on imported corn by 2040.
