The Effects Of Productions Of Sugars On Malaysia's Economy

Malaysia is a net sugar importing country. In 1995, imports of raw sugar reached a record 1.0 million tones, while exports were 101 000 tones. Increasing quantities of sugar have had to be meet rising demand and compensate for the stagnant domestic production. In recent years, sugar is one of Malaysia's largest agricultural imports, with annual sugar imports valued at between US$200 to 300 million.

Since 1st of January, Malaysia sugar price increased from RM1.45 to RM1.65 per kilo in Peninsular Malaysia and RM1.75 in East Malaysia. Our government was still maintaining a subsidy of RM0.80 per kilo. However,many people said that one day our government would remove the sugar subsidy in order to minimize the amount of sugar intake and meanwhile reduce the diabetic cases in our country.

Sugars is one of the most important ingredient to put in our food to make the food tastes more sweeter. Sometimes people use too many sugars to make the food more delicious. Too sweets may lead to many kind of diseases such as diabetic disease. Government is trying to minimize the sugar intake for the country's economy will be affected. The government need to find other solutions to heal diabetics patients and this will costs too high.

Besides that, sugars is used widely in whole wide world and of course in our country too. Too many intake of sugars force us to produce more sugars. Too many requests on sugars force the government to import more sugars from other countries. And of course this will affect our economy. To "heal" our country's economy, we have to reduce the intake of sugars and this will give a lot of benefits that is not only to us but also to our country.

In a nutshell, too many intakes of sugars may cause many disadvantages,not only to us but also to our country's economy. To prevent this, we should reduce the amount of sugar intake in order to "heal" and raise our economy.

by:

adlin nadia