It is the world’s fourth largest exporter despite being a late entrant into the international market. But Vietnamese firms producing tires and needing latex for other production purposes are facing a shortage of the material and having to import it at higher prices. The increased domestic demand has not disturbed the export focus of local [...]
Natural rubber output in key growing countries will expand at a slower pace in the third quarter as a “severe” leaf disease delays tapping in Vietnam, according to the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries. Production from member countries, representing 92% of global supply, may increase 3.4% to 2.77 million metric tons during the July-to-September [...]
Provinces in the Central Highlands have planted rubber trees on more than 64,000ha in the last two years, taking the region’s total area under rubber to 174,720ha, the Tay Nguyen Steering Committee said. Kon Tum, Gia Lai and Dak Lak provinces have the largest areas under rubber. The trees have mostly been planted on infertile [...]
The Viet Nam Rubber Group (VRG) ‘s four subsidiaries yesterday kicked off a project to plant 100,000ha of rubber trees in Cambodia’s Kratie Province under an agreement between the two countries. The subsidiaries are the Dong Nai Kratie, Dong Phu Kratie, Phu Rieng Kratie and Loc Ninh Kratie companies. Addressing the ceremony, Cambodian Deputy Prime [...]
Vietnam is currently implementing rubber growing projects in Cambodia, aiming to plant 100,000 hectares of rubber trees in five Cambodian provinces by 2012. The projects are part of a trade promotion plan approved by the Prime Ministers of both countries at the Vietnam-Cambodia business conference in April 2011. A seminar was held in Phnom Penh [...]
Upgrading processing facilities and offering training to farmers will help the rubber industry develop in a sustainable manner, said experts at a sustainable rubber development forum in Binh Phuoc Province last week. The area of rubber tree plantations increased rapidly from 1980-2010, with an annual average rise of 7.7 per cent in area and 10.7 [...]
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