Relief for rubber growers in Kerala as price incentive scheme is back on track
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Relief for rubber growers in Kerala as price incentive scheme is back on track

The Hindu  

With just over a week to go for the State government to present its annual Budget, the derailed Rubber Price Incentive Scheme is finally getting back on track. The operation of the website ebt.kerala.gov.in has been restored after a gap of over 50 days, enabling the small-scale rubber growers in Kerala to file their claims for the price guaranteed by the State government. While the State government has now restored the RPIS scheme, concern still lingers over a shortage of field officers with the Rubber Board to verify and clear the bills uploaded through the Rubber Producers Societies. Submitting bills Under the RPIS, the government provides rubber growers with the difference between ₹170, which is the guaranteed price, and the actual market price.

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Rubber cultivators in Kerala shift jobs over inadequate support on prices & finances
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Rubber cultivators in Kerala shift jobs over inadequate support on prices & finances

Hindustan Times  

Rubber growers in Kerala are shifting to other income-earning activities due to infrastructure development happening in the state, outgoing chairman of the Rubber Board of India, Sawar Dhanania, said on Saturday, as reported by PTI. Latex drips from a tree at a rubber plantation Kerala produces over 90% of India's natural rubber from a total cultivation area of 3.84 lakh …

Govt hikes rubber sector support by 23% to ₹708 cr for next two years
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Govt hikes rubber sector support by 23% to ₹708 cr for next two years

Live Mint  

The government has increased financial package for the rubber sector by 23% to ₹708.69 crore from ₹576.41 crore for the next two years to enhance natural rubber production and productivity as well as reduce import dependency in the years to come, a senior official said on Monday. There are 1.3 million rubber growers in the country and Kerala accounts for …

Ahead of Budget, rubber growers up the ante
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Ahead of Budget, rubber growers up the ante

The Hindu  

In view of the upcoming State Budget on February 5, the beleaguered rubber growers of central Travancore are raising pressure on the Kerala government over an “unacknowledged” suspension of the Rubber Price Incentive Scheme. In the previous plan period, as many as 8.37 lakh bills were filed through the website ebt.kerala.gov.in and of this, 8.17 lakh was forwarded to the …

CAMPCO Seeks Minimum Support Price For Rubber Growers in Karnataka
1 year, 3 months ago

CAMPCO Seeks Minimum Support Price For Rubber Growers in Karnataka

Deccan Chronicle  

Mangaluru: Expressing concern over the appalling condition of the rubber growers due to the steep fall in the price of Natural Rubber, the CAMPCO president has asked Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to extend the Minimum Support Price to the rubber growers of Karnataka on the lines of the scheme extended by the Government of Kerala. Nearly 60,000 Rubber Growers in Karnataka …

Kerala Congress factions rush to ensure aid to rubber farmers in budget
1 year, 11 months ago

Kerala Congress factions rush to ensure aid to rubber farmers in budget

The Hindu  

Caught in a bind over the delay in political action to rescue the embattled rubber growers of Central Travancore, the Kerala Congress parties, which have ostensibly espoused pro-farmer politics, are pulling out all the stops to ensure some relief to the sector in the upcoming State budget. As part of it, the Kerala Congress chairman Jose K. Mani has forwarded …

Fortunes are stretching a bit too thin for rubber
2 years, 3 months ago

Fortunes are stretching a bit too thin for rubber

The Hindu  

It is a given that natural rubber has brought with it good fortunes to Kerala. Import glut, climate change, and finally the pandemic, have rattled the sector several times over the last couple of decades, sapping Kerala’s enthusiasm for the rubber crop. As per conventional estimates, about 11 lakh farmers are growing natural rubber in Kerala while the area of …

Campco urges government to buy rubber under minimum support price
2 years, 4 months ago

Campco urges government to buy rubber under minimum support price

The Hindu  

The Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative has urged the State Government to buy rubber produced in Karnataka under minimum support price on the lines of the Kerala Government to save rubber farmers from price drop crisis. It has also urged Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to prevail upon the central government to impose a uniform import duty of …

Steps to address crisis in rubber sector: Minister
5 years, 3 months ago

Steps to address crisis in rubber sector: Minister

The Hindu  

September 30, 2019 11:51 pm | Updated 11:51 pm IST - KANNUR Minister for Industry and Commerce E.P. Jayarajan said steps would be taken to address the crisis in the rubber sector. Inaugurating the office of The Kannur Rubber Products Company at Clays and Ceramics Complex at Pappinissery here on Monday, the Minister said the government was implementing the programme …

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