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write note on the change from cultivation of food crops to cash crops?
Commercialization of agriculture has also led to the expansion of cash crops, including several tree-based crops such as oil-palm, rubber, coffee, cashew, and fast-growing trees species for pulp and paper. In many areas, these have replaced foodcrops.

At the same time, the demand for food production has expanded, linked to growing and increasingly affluent populations both within and outside the region. Faced with a static or shrinking resource base, some farmers in the region have managed to increase food production by intensification of land use.

Most recently, the conversion from traditional agriculture, including shifting cultivation, to more permanent cash crops driven by regional and global markets. Rubber is the major commercial crop replacing traditional agriculture and secondary forests in the region, a direct result of strong market demands from China, the world's largest consumer.


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