MALAYSIA’s Modernisation of Agriculture Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr Alfred Jabu announced that Penan and Kelabit communities in the remote area of Baram, Sarawak have already started with the planting of high-yielding rubber. Introduced early last year and launched…
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South and East Asia rubber news
Rubber shortage, price hike in India due to rains
RUBBER production in India has been affected by heavy rain. For the previous two months, affected areas are mostly in Kerala, and in the high ranges of the State. Local prices for rubber have shot up, irrespective of the world…
Indian firm grows rubber in Saudi
INDIA-based firm, Cheerakuzhy Rubber Nursery, is setting up a 100-acre rubber plantation at Al Gahma in the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, which has moderate climate and farms. Yasser Ghazi Maleh Al Shammari, a Saudi farmer, attempts at growing…
Malaysia to implement clustered rubber plantation in Penang
THE MALAYSIAN Government, through its Rural Transformation Programme, will implement a clustered rubber plantation project to help uplift the living standards of the Penan community at Long Beruang. In a statement, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr Alfred…
India taps rural job scheme to boost rubber output
THE RUBBER Board of India is looking into utitising the government’s rural employment guarantee scheme to increase the natural rubber output of the country. According to the agency, the current 9 million tonne a year may be increased if there…
Philippines issues IRR for rubber research institute setup
THE PHILIPPINE’S Agricultural Department has recently issued the implementing rules and regulations of a law that creates the Philippine Rubber Research Institute, to develop the country’s rubber industry. An initial Php 100 million (about US$2.5 million) has been allotted for…
Sri Lanka rubber firms to venture in Vietnam
RUBBER manufacturing firms in Sri Lanka will be venturing in some projects in Vietnam to ensure a stable supply of natural rubber in the future, according to Sri Lanka Society of Rubber Industry (SRI) Chair, W. T. Ellawala. Vietnam, the…
Philippine agencies to form rubber industry cluster teams
THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture (DA) and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) are forming regional and provincial rubber industry cluster teams in MIMAROPA region (which includes the provinces of Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan), Philippines. The move is part of…
China hikes anti-dumping duty on SR import from Japan
ACCORDING to China’s Ministry of Commerce, it is increasing the current anti-dumping levy of 9.9% on imported chloroprene rubber, a type of synthetic rubber, supplied by Japanese firm Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, after complaints from local rubber makers start…
Rubber training for RP’s t’boli tribe folks
SOME Thirty farmers, mostly members of the T’boli tribe living in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, Philippines have been taking a two-week training course for rubber tapping that will end on August 2. The trainees are members of the South Cotabato…