THE PHILIPPINES is set to expand coffee, cacao and rubber plantations in Mindanao,as part of its National Greening Programme (NGP), According to the director of the Forest Management Bureau Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the Php6.2-billion NGP for…
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Fast growing rubber tree variety to be introduced in the Philippines
A NEW variety of rubber tree, one that grows faster than the normal types, will be introduced to local farmers in South Cotabato (Mindanao), Philippines. Alfonso Jack Sandique, owner of the Advance Rubber Technology Farm in Makilala, also in South…
Sarawak farmers received rubber seedlings, fertiliser
SOME 100 farmers in Julau, Sarawak (Malaysia) received 500 rubber seedlings; each also received RM500 worth of fertiliser. 1Malaysia Sarawak Advisory Council (1MSAC) chairman and Julau MP Datuk Joseph Salang handed over the seedlings to the farmers at the Department…
India’s Rubber Research Institute inaugurates solar plants
TWO 50 KW-solar plants, were recently inaugurated at Rubber Board of India’s Rubber Research Institute (RRI). The event was led by Minister for Power and Transport Aryadan Mohammed and Rubber Board Chairperson, Sheela Thomas. the capital investment for the solar…
New HQ underway for MRB
THE MALAYSIAN Rubber Board (MRB) is building a new headquarters and other key facilities at Sungai Buloh by next year and is expected to be completed by 2018. The project, estimated to cost RM1.1 billion, will be carried out by…
India’s Rubber Board calls for rubber import ban
IMPORT of rubber must be banned, according to the the Executive Committee of the Rubber Board. Alternatively, it proposed that duty free imports against advance license must be suspended. Moreover, it proposed that the import duty should be increased by…
High power rate stunts Phililippine rubber sector’s readiness for AFTA
THE INCREASING cost of power could reduce the competitiveness of the country’s rubber exporters when the Asean Free Trade Area or AFTA takes full effect by 2015, in lieu of the AEC (ASEAN Economic Council), according to an industry source.…
Kerala makes headway for organic rubber farming
THE INDIAN state of Kerala is going into organic rubber farmer. Experts say that as an alternative to traditional methods using chemical fertilisers, organic farming should be given the boost. However, this method is being practiced sporadically by individuals rather…
Japanese tyre companies to import rubber from Myanmar
JAPAN is planning to import raw rubber from Myanmar to fill in the approximately 700,000 to 800,000 tonnes rubber/year requirement of tyre companies in the country. To raise Myanmar’s technical standards with the raw rubber and be at par with…
Chinese Government buys NR from local rubber producers
CHINA, which in previous quarters, had claimed of surplus rubber inventories at its Qingdao warehouses, purchased an estimated 54,000 metric tonnes of ribbed smoked sheet (RSS) grade natural rubber (NR) from local suppliers for government stockpiles, according to reports. About…