{"id":22374,"date":"2025-05-01T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=22374"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:44:30","slug":"coconut-milk-dealers-in-malaysia-pass-on-soaring-costs-to-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/05\/01\/coconut-milk-dealers-in-malaysia-pass-on-soaring-costs-to-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coconut milk dealers in Malaysia pass on soaring costs to consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A six-month supply pressure of coconut in Malaysia is forcing coconut milk dealers to conscientiously pass on the cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A short-lived go at imports in February 2025<\/u><\/a> has not helped either in dealing a killing blow to the hiking prices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Malay Mail<\/u><\/a>, santan<\/em> or coconut milk was costing 19 ringitt ($4.40) a kg in late April 2025, up from 11 ringitt ($2.55).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 is not the only exception for santan<\/em> has been experiencing a yearly 2% price uptick, beginning 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting February 2025, the selling price first hit 20 ringitt ($4.63) per kg, making customers feel the pinch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has affected\u00a0santak\u00a0<\/em>foods,<\/em>\u00a0including\u00a0kue lapis <\/em>or\u00a0layered rice cake and\u00a0nasi lemak<\/em>\u00a0or rice in coconut milk.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above rice dishes satiate their liquid ingredient thirst on coconut milk. For this reason, typical breakfast canteens spend at least 5 kg of milk to make these concoctions daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, traders have no choice but to add 50 cents above the normal 3 ringitt ($0.69) per nasi lemak <\/em>dish sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same reluctant passing of costs to consumers informs kue lapis<\/em>\u2019 sales, albeit via scaling down of the product\u2019s size. Currently, kue<\/em> costs at least 0.80 ringitt ($0.19) apiece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside the prepared food zone is fresh grated coconut, now costing 12 ringitt ($2.78) a kg, up from 7 ringitt ($1.62). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although many retail grade packet coconut milk is on sale across Malaysia, most traders prefer the raw product from farmers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the severe shortage, however, it seems inevitable to go the packet way unless production of coconut (Cocos nucifera L<\/em><\/u><\/em><\/a>.) upscales.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since July 2024, Malaysia has seen its coconut output drop by 50%<\/u><\/a> in some production zones due to climate vagaries.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coconut milk prices in Malaysia are therefore still up since October 2024 due to a production downturn. And as the statistics below reveal, the industry is quite a revenue earner for the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaysia Coconut Milk Statistics <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Coconut and its products ranks fourth in value among agricultural goods in Malaysia next to palm oil, rubber and paddy. Malaysia is the 12th<\/sup> biggest coconut producer in the world at 535,68 tonnes, as of 2018, according to governmental figures<\/u><\/a>. Despite this prominence, the country has to annually import 250,000 tonnes of coconuts-in-shell to meet surging consumption needs. The coconut milk industry itself is quite huge, with an estimated 2025 market value of $88.3 million<\/u><\/a>, according to Fortune Business. This is over half the overall coconut industry production value of 666.7 million<\/u><\/a> ringitt ($154.4 million), as of  2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the share of coconut milk in Malay distribution chains<\/strong>?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a 2024 state survey, fresh coconut milk represents at least 11.9 %<\/u><\/a> of coconut products in a farmer\u2019s market. Processed coconut milk (liquid or powder) in supermarkets meanwhile makes up 56.4% of retail coconut products. This is even while grated coconut represents 10.6% of farmers\u2019 market sales and 34.4%<\/u><\/a> at retail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which are the top coconut-producing states in Malaysia?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Perak in the west ranked third in production at 87,890 tonnes<\/u><\/a> while Johor in the southern peninsular ranked second with 97,677 tonnes. In the first place was Songor on the western coast with 99,674 tonnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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