A Systematic Review of the Challenges and Opportunities of the Agriculture Economic Sector in Malaysia

Globalization brings the emergence of technology which has dramatically changed the traditional nature of the agriculture sector into a modern which currently achieves sustainability to address issues of food security, aging and unemployment in most agriculture sectors of the world countries. Particularly, Malaysia's agriculture sector faces challenges, including a labor shortage due to its domination by aging farmers, and low youth participation due to negative agricultural perspectives. Nevertheless, this sector remains crucial and looking forward to sustainability as world population growth is the challenge of agriculture found among Malaysian researchers. Another hand, several themes of opportunities have been found that had been expected to respond to the current agriculture challenges trends such as youth, modern agriculture and agricultural entrepreneurship which have been often discussed in the literature. Agriculture Entrepreneurship and emerging trends of technology changes have raised the attention to be integrated to respond and create an opportunity for the group of youth to respond through their agriculture sector participation which had been often discussed among previous researchers. Youth are identified as the key to productivity capability and inclusive development as aligned to the establishment of the youth agropreneur unit in 2013 which aims to groom a new breed of youth Agropreneur in Malaysia under Malaysia National Agriculture Policy 2030. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to review past studies and to analyze the pattern of the challenges and opportunities of the agriculture sector in Malaysia.