KOCHI, JUNE 27:
The Rubber Board’s initiative to increase production and productivity seems to have started yielding results with natural rubber production in May registering an 8.7 per cent increase against the corresponding period last year.
The production figure during May this year stood at 50,000 tonnes whereas it was 46,000 tonnes in May 2016. In the first two months of the current fiscal, the figure was 98,000 tonnes, whereas it was 85,000 tonnes during the same period last year, an increase of 15.3 per cent. With this growth momentum, the Board is expecting production to touch 8 lakh tonnes in the current year.
The Board is continuing its activities to make rubber cultivation remunerative by increasing production and productivity and reducing the cost of cultivation and production. It has implemented several activities at the regional and field levels with the active cooperation of the Rubber Producer’s Societies.
