The provincial government of North Cotabato and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) yesterday inaugurated the country’s first National Rubber Budwood Garden inside the provincial capitol compound in Barangay Amas, this city. A budwood garden is a nursery…
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South and East Asia rubber news
50 settlers lost income after scattered fire burned rubber trees
About 80 hectares of rubber smallholding at the South Kelantan Development Authority’s (Kesedar) land settlement scheme in Chenulang, Kuala Krai have been destroyed in fire over the past few days. State fire and rescue chief Azmi Osman said the department…
IFC accepts complaint over Ratanakkiri rubber plantations
The International Finance Corporation’s compliance ombudsman has officially accepted a complaint filed by ethnic minority families in Ratanakkiri province against the IFC for investing in rubber plantations accused of stealing land and clearing forests. In a letter sent to the…
Grave sites cleared by rubber firms: NGOs
Four Vietnamese rubber firms are responsible for destroying an estimated 1,000 hectares of community forest, including an indigenous graveyard, in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district, a group of NGOs have claimed. The land dispute involving 196 families living in Talav commune…
Thailand’s 2014 rubber output to fall on politics, prices
Natural rubber production in Thailand is likely to drop in 2014 due to political upheaval and as a sharp fall in prices prompts farmers to curtail tapping, a senior official at the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) told…
Saudi imports $1.7bn used tyres despite ban
Used tyres worth SR6.4 billion ($1.7 billion) were imported into Saudi Arabia in 2012 despite a ministerial decision banning import of such tyres, reports said. Such tyres are used for small cars, trucks, buses, agro machinery and aircraft, an Arab…
Govt approves Rs 960-cr scheme for rubber sector development
Government today approved a scheme for the development of rubber sector in the country with an outlay of Rs 960 crore in 12th plan (2012-17). “The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the continuation of the ‘Sustainable and Inclusive…
JK Tyre expects more sales due to elections
JK Tyres expects sales of tyres to get a boost from the preparation of the upcoming general elections in the country. Arun Kumar Bajoria, President of JK Tyre & Industries Ltd, said, “We are expecting the sale of commercial tyres…
RBI okays rubber field offices for Nagaland
With the increasing number of rubber plantations in Nagaland and the felt need to assist the growers, chairman of Rubber Board of India (RBI) has approved the proposal to open rubber field office in Sanis under Wokha and Niuland under…
Families to file complaint with IFC over rubber plantations
Some of the hundreds of families losing land and community forest to Vietnamese-owned rubber plantations in Cambodia’s northeast will this week file a complaint with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) over the investment it has made in the plantations’ parent…