Thai Government sets rubber price limit at B45
The Thai government plans to buy rubber from farmers at a purchase price not exceeding 45 baht per kg. The projected price is about 15 baht lower than the set price demanded by groups of rubber farmers who are calling for 60 baht per kg, roughly ...
No bounce in Luang Namtha rubber price
The rubber price in Luang Namtha province has fallen continually since 2013 causing a large number of growers to plant other crops instead. The rubber price in the province is currently 3,000-3,500 kip per kilogramme, down from 4,000-4,500 kip per kg over the past year, an ...
Southern rubber growers in Trang to discuss demands
Leaders of rubber growers in the South met in Trang province on 12 January for a meeting with the provincial governor and to discuss their demands that the government help increase the price of rubber. About 30 representatives of southern rubber growers gathered at the Trang branch ...
Rubber row flares amid rally threat
Rubber farmers in the South are threatening to stage a major rally and a hunger strike if their demands for government action to shore up falling prices are not met. Saksarit Sriprasart, a leader of rubber farmers in Trang, said a network of small planters in the southern ...
Prayut says useless for rubber farmers to protest
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on 7 January warned rubber farmers not to protest, saying he would not comply to their request while they could face legal actions. Keep reading ...
Rubber firm excavated land, Kratie families say
More than 160 families in Kratie province’s Snuol district have alleged that the Memot Rubber Plantation company has been using excavators to clear their land. The families from Pi Thnou commune filed a complaint to the provincial office of local rights group Adhoc on 23 December, ...
China signs rice, rubber deals with Thailand
China has signed rice and rubber purchase deals with Thailand as part of the Thai-Sino railway development agreement. Negotiations over the railway are continuing. The deals were signed at the ninth meeting of the Joint Committee on Railway Cooperation in Bangkok on 3 December. Keep reading ...
Rubber market to be built in Mawlamyine, Myanmar
Myanmar’s first central rubber market will be built at Mawlamyine in Mon State as authorities seek to help the industry amid low prices and sluggish sales. Mon State is the country’s top rubber producer and the commodity is considered a “promising export” in Myanmar’s National Export ...
Vietnam, Japan produce carbon-free rubber
Vietnamese and Japanese researchers have developed technologies to reduce proteins in natural rubber, thereby permitting the production of high-performance rubber materials and alleviate the environmental burden caused by natural rubber processing. The scientists presented their research results at a session during the International Rubber Conference held ...
Vietnam Rubber Group stripped of accreditation
A giant Vietnamese rubber company that has faced repeated accusations of illegal land and forest grabbing in Cambodia has been stripped of its accreditation as a sustainable forestry product supplier by the world’s leading forest certification body. In a damning report, the Forest Stewardship Council claims ...
