KOTTAYAM (Commodity Online): The Rubber Board will hold an intensive mass contact programme so as to bring awareness among the rubber growers about the need of improving the quality of sheet rubber and to impart training in scientific sheet rubber processing.
In a statement issued on Thursday, 20 May 2010 the board informed that the meetings are scheduled to be held from 1 June to 16 July 2010. Four thousand meetings with a participation of one lakh growers will be arranged in the traditional rubber growing belt of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka with the active involvement of the Rubber Producers’ Societies.
“The tyre industry- especially the truck/bus tyre sector- consumes the major portion of the natural rubber. The tyre sector is now switching over to production of radial tyres, which have relatively superior quality and better life than the cross ply (bias) tyres. Sheet rubber of the quality RSS 4 and above is essential for the production of radial tyres. This will make it difficult for the growers to fetch good price for low quality sheets in future. The growers should therefore be prepared to improve the quality of their sheet rubber,” the Board maintained in a statement.
In addition to the main theme of quality improvement of sheet rubber, topics like tappers bank, low frequency tapping, controlled upward tapping, mechanisation in rubber cultivation, necessity of replanting, mosquito control in rubber estates etc will also be discussed in the campaign meetings.
(commodityonline.com)
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