SUSTAINABILITY OF HALAL FOOD PRODUCTS THROUGH THE CONVERSION OF ABANDONED LAND FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES

Agriculture activities play significant roles in ensuring that halal food particularly staple food is accessible to consumers when there is a demand to fulfill the consumers' needs. In relation to this, there is a need for adequate land space to make sure the process of supplying the local halal food products in Malaysia is achievable. In line with this, the abandoned land should be treated efficiently by doing a conversion to become agricultural land as to fulfill the consumers' needs. This paper aims to examine the Malaysian government efforts in converting abandoned land for the agricultural purposes in order to increase halal food products. This study involves in-text document to gather the information, then it will be analyzed by using content analysis and constant comparative techniques as well. The study has shown that there is a need for widening the practice of benefiting the abandoned land to become the agricultural land since it will reduce the dependability of our country towards the imported halal food products