MANGALURU, JANUARY 30
Indian industry provides best farmgate price to rubber growers in the country, according to Arun Mammen, Managing Director of MRF Ltd.
Addressing the rubber growers of Karnataka at the Ujire-based Belthangady Taluk Rubber Growers’ Marketing and Processing Cooperative Society Ltd recently, Mammen said that almost 95 per cent of the traded price of rubber goes to farmer in the country compared to around 65 per cent in Thailand.
MRF started procurement of natural rubber from the Belthangady Society five years ago. Started with procurement of 100 tonnes a month, it has now grown to more than 2,000 tonnes. Stating that there is a lack of skilled rubber tappers in India, he stressed the need to design semi- or fully-mechanised tapping knife that will make tapping easier.
