Agriculture
01
7.1 million tonnes from 1.09 million hectares.
The official crop survey for 2024, read live from the data.gov.my API — what the country plants, what it harvests, and where. Paddy is the biggest crop by production and by planted area, and the fishing fleet lands another 1.39 million tonnes of marine fish a year.
Crop production · 2024
7.08 Mt
million metric tonnes across eight crop groups — flowers, counted in stalks, excluded
Planted area
1.09M ha
million hectares planted across all nine crop groups — oil palm and rubber are not in this survey
Biggest crop
Paddy
2.06 million tonnes on 579,706 hectares — the largest by production and by planted area
Fish landings · 2025
1.39 Mt
million tonnes of marine fish landed — down 15.2% since 2005
Official latestAn annual establishment survey, not a live count — 2024 is the most recent published year, and the fisheries series runs on its own calendar. Each figure is shown with its period.
Dept of Agriculture / Ministry of Agriculture & Food Security / DOSM — crops_state (Crop Area and Production by State, annual survey), via the data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 09:42 UTC
Annual establishment-level survey, 2014–2024. Production in metric tonnes, planted area in hectares, per the catalogue dictionary — except flowers, whose figures are only plausible as stalk counts and are excluded from every tonne total and yield here. Oil palm and rubber are not in this dataset.
What Malaysia grows
02
Paddy first, fruits second.
9 crop groups in the 2024 survey. Paddy leads at 2,059,101 tonnes, ahead of fruits (1,968,957) and vegetables (1,340,110) — together 76% of every tonne harvested. Yields here are output per planted hectare, the only area measure the survey publishes.
| Crop group | Production | Share of tonnage | Planted area | Output / planted ha |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paddy | 2,059,101 t | 29.1% | 579,706 ha | 3.6 t |
| Fruits | 1,968,957 t | 27.8% | 203,205 ha | 9.7 t |
| Vegetables | 1,340,110 t | 18.9% | 75,795 ha | 17.7 t |
| Industrial crops | 780,847 t | 11.0% | 119,067 ha | 6.6 t |
| Coconut | 673,553 t | 9.5% | 86,356 ha | 7.8 t |
| Cash crops | 187,323 t | 2.6% | 16,186 ha | 11.6 t |
| Spices | 62,013 t | 0.9% | 6,228 ha | 10.0 t |
| Herbs | 8,460 t | 0.1% | 1,804 ha | 4.7 t |
| Flowers | 355,469,998 stalks | — | 2,585 ha | — |
Latest survey year, 2024. Flowers are recorded by count (the catalogue labels every crop "metric tonnes", but the flower figures are only plausible as stalks) — so they carry no tonnage share and no yield here.
The short official series, 2014–2024: every tonne crop combined, and paddy on its own.
All crops, million tonnes (excl. flowers)
Paddy, million tonnes
Where it grows
03
Each crop has a home state.
Kedah grows 37.7% of the country's paddy; Johor grows 38.6% of its fruits. The two biggest crops by tonnage, state by state, 2024.
Paddy
2,059,101 tonnes nationally
| State | Tonnes | Share | Hectares |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kedah | 777,021 | 37.7% | 213,556 |
| Perak | 259,999 | 12.6% | 75,773 |
| Perlis | 246,440 | 12.0% | 56,899 |
| Kelantan | 204,619 | 9.9% | 58,714 |
| Selangor | 145,693 | 7.1% | 34,811 |
| Penang | 116,402 | 5.7% | 24,210 |
| Sabah | 110,980 | 5.4% | 34,318 |
| Sarawak | 84,510 | 4.1% | 45,269 |
Top producing states, latest survey year. The bar is each state's share of national paddy production.
Fruits
1,968,957 tonnes nationally
| State | Tonnes | Share | Hectares |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johor | 759,801 | 38.6% | 43,236 |
| Pahang | 262,464 | 13.3% | 30,148 |
| Kelantan | 216,763 | 11.0% | 29,029 |
| Perak | 130,873 | 6.6% | 11,190 |
| Sabah | 130,388 | 6.6% | 21,706 |
| Sarawak | 124,688 | 6.3% | 30,596 |
| Kedah | 101,933 | 5.2% | 9,128 |
| Negeri Sembilan | 71,521 | 3.6% | 6,015 |
Top producing states, latest survey year. The bar is each state's share of national fruits production.
Did you know
Flowers are the most concentrated harvest: 47.7% from one state.
Johor alone accounts for 47.7% of national flowers production (counted in stalks, not tonnes). Vegetables run close behind — Pahang grows 44.8% — and Johor grows 39.3% of the country's spices.
Computed from crops_state (DOA / MAFS / DOSM via data.gov.my), 2014–2024
A planted hectare of vegetables out-produces one of paddy 5.0 times over.
Vegetables yield 17.7 tonnes per planted hectare against paddy's 3.6 — output per planted hectare, not per harvested hectare, since the survey publishes planted area only.
Computed from crops_state (DOA / MAFS / DOSM via data.gov.my), 2014–2024
Paddy production fell 27.5% across the series.
2.84 million tonnes in 2014, 2.06 million in 2024 — while its planted area moved -14.7%, from 679,239 to 579,706 hectares. The biggest crop in the country is not the fastest-growing one.
Computed from crops_state (DOA / MAFS / DOSM via data.gov.my), 2014–2024
Deep data
03.3
Planted, not necessarily harvested.
The survey publishes planted area only — it does not distinguish the harvested area within it. Every yield on this page therefore divides production by planted hectares: for perennials like fruit and coconut, land under young trees that bear nothing yet sits in the denominator, so mature stands yield more than these figures suggest.
Crop series
2014–2024
six annual survey years, refetched daily from data.gov.my
Crop groups
9
from paddy to flowers — oil palm and rubber are published elsewhere and are not here
Fish series
2005–2025
monthly marine landings, summed from complete years only
Landings since 2005
+15.2%
1.21 → 1.39 million tonnes a year
Oil palm and rubber are not in this table
The survey's industrial-crops group covers areca nut, coffee, tea, roselle, mushrooms and bee products (per the companion district dataset's species list). The plantation giants are published by other agencies and are absent here — this chapter makes no claims about them.
No livestock, no trade, no prices
These datasets cover crop production, planted area and marine fish landings — nothing else. Livestock, imports, exports and farmgate prices are not in them, so this chapter draws no food-security or self-sufficiency conclusions; those need trade data it does not yet have.
Marine capture only
The fisheries series counts marine fish landed at port. Aquaculture and inland fisheries are outside it, and the dataset's own caveat notes Johor appears in both east- and west-coast breakdowns — so this page uses only the all-coasts national series.
Department of Fisheries — fish_landings (Monthly Landings of Marine Fish by State), via the data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 09:42 UTC
Marine capture landings in metric tonnes, 2005–2025, summed here from complete 12-month years only. Aquaculture and inland fisheries are not in the series.
What the country grows sets what the country pays at the market stall, and what it clears land for. Next shelves: Cost of Living and Environment.