The CPI(M) has urged the Centre to impose restrictions on import of natural rubber. Citing the “pathetic situation” of rubber farmers in the country, the party said unrestrained import of natural rubber into the country was a major factor in…
Category: Pan-Asia
South and East Asia rubber news
Thailand’s stockpile of natural rubber to pave the roads
Thailand’s ruling generals have come up a new way to deal with the country’s bulging stockpile of natural rubber: pave the roads with it. Buoyant rubber stocks, inherited by Thailand’s military junta when they took power in May, are the…
Cambodia expects growth in dry rubber exports
Cambodia has seen a 91 percent rise in dry rubber exports in the first half of 2014 as revenue from the exports increased only 3 percent due to global decline of rubber prices. During the January-June period this year, the…
Kalinga Representative pushes rubber tree propagation
Kalinga Representative Manuel Agyao is pushing for the propagation of high value commercial crops (HVCC) like rubber tree in North Luzon as it is feasible and viable industry that provides income and help balance the ecosystem. To lead this campaign,…
Cambodia reports hike in rubber exports
Cambodia has seen a 91 percent rise in dry rubber exports in the first half of 2014 as revenue from the exports increased only 3 percent due to global decline of rubber prices. During the January-June period this year, the…
Training on rubber plantation assists AgNor farmers
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Agusan del Norte was grateful to the Department of Agriculture (DA) and JCA Rubber Employees Multi-Purpose Cooperative (JARBEMCO) for the successful conduct of training on rubber production and tapping system that benefited the farmers of the…
Indian Rubber Board requests to cultivate Jharkhand and other states
Rubber Board has submitted a proposal to the Centre highlighting the potential for rubber cultivation in areas affected by extremist activities in some parts of the country. In an informal chat with presspersons on the sidelines of a meeting of…
Indian rubber farmers request to halt imports
The Hindu Business Line reports, “The Indian Rubber Growers Association has asked the center to suspend rubber imports, considering the fall in prices. When the prices fell in 1999, the government had stopped imports under advance licence scheme through a…
Kerala MP requested the Centre to set up rubber university
A Kerala MP has requested the Centre to set up a rubber university in his state, noting that carbon sequestration potential of rubber trees is greater than most other species used in afforestation programmes. Kerala Congress (M) leader Jose K…
Indian minister urged rubber procurement agencies to be more cautious
Finance minister K M Mani has urged procurement agencies, Rubbermark and Marketfed, to intensify procurement of rubber in the wake of steep fall in the price of rubber. “Rs 10cr has already been set apart by the government for procuring…