According to the Jakarta December 24 news, Indonesia’s natural rubber exports in 2015 are expected to reach 2.58 million tons, and this year’s export volume estimates are similar, but the more the country’s exports in 2013 decreased by 10%. Sluggish global demand for rubber this year, resulting in rubber prices hit a three-year low, the Indonesian domestic rubber companies adversely affected.
Indonesia’s rubber production in 2014 is estimated at 3.5 million tons, of which about 90% is exported, mainly to countries including the United States, Japan, China, India and Brazil.
Indonesia’s rubber production in 2014 by a number of factors, such as excessive rainfall at the beginning of 2014, rubber prices low so that manufacturers lack of enthusiasm for planting rubber trees and so on.Currently, the global rubber price is about $ 1.48 per kg, lower than the production cost, and therefore choose other crops such as palm oil more attractive.
(Indonesian Rubber Association) Chairman of the Indonesian Rubber Association Daud Husni Bastari rubber exports in the first quarter 2015 target of 50-60 million tonnes. He said that the Indonesian government should encourage domestic rubber consumption to boost rubber production.
Indonesia is the world’s second largest rubber producer. Since the 1990s, the steady development of the rubber industry, the majority of rubber plantations located in Sumatra. Government and large private plantations in the country, the role of the rubber industry is small, about 80 percent of the rubber production comes from small-scale farmers.
Translated by Google Translator from http://market.cria.org.cn/22/25093.html
