马来西亚乡村发展部最近宣布,将在数年内逐步缩减橡胶园的面积,以便种植更具商业价值的农作物,例如草药等。届时,橡胶园的面积将会由现在的140万公顷减少到80万公顷。采取这一措施的主要原因是橡胶的价格不稳定,甚至曾跌至每公斤0.8林吉特(马币),给小橡胶园主造成巨大损失。虽 The Rural Development Ministry of Malaysia recently announced that it will gradually reduce the area of ​​rubber plantations in a few years in order to grow more commercially valuable crops such as herbs. By then, the rubber plantation area will be reduced from 1.4 million hectares to 800,000 hectares. The main reason for this measure was the unstable price of rubber, which even dropped to MYR8.8 / kg, causing huge losses to small rubber owners. although