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At federation the primary sector of the Malaysian economy encompassed a very diverse collection of activities. These ranged from shifting agriculture through a continuum of sedentary non-capitalistic small farmers to capitalistic monocultural estates of 40 to several thousand hectares in size, together with extractive industries, notably timber, petroleum, tin, copper and so on. Foreign enterprise predominated in estates and the mining industries.
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Drabble, J.H. (2000). The Primary Sector. In: An Economic History of Malaysia, c. 1800–1990. A Modern Economic History of Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389465_11
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