Following the victory of the last harvest, rubber growers in Binh Duong this year have made good preparations for the new harvest.

 Rubber latex price at high level

 In recent years, small-sized rubber plantations have upheld their basic advantages and contributed to improving the lives of the local rural people. The whole province is now home to nearly 130,000 ha of rubber, 65% of which are small-sized rubber plantations with 70% of total area under exploitation. Rubber now becomes a main plant of the local agricultural sector, due to easy cultivation and hi-economic value. Also upon these reasons, there has been a strong growth of the small-sized rubber plantations herein.

 

Rubber latex being tapped in Phu Giao district

With the price of VND500 per degree over the past two years, the local rubber growers could earn nearly VND100mln in profit per ha. This has contributed to improving the lives of the local rural people. With the price of VND900 per degree, they will get higher income from their rubber plantations this year.

Before predictions that the rubber latex price will further maintain at high level, many rubber growers have spent more money on tending their rubber plantations. Nguyen Van Uy, a rubber grower in Dau Tieng district’s Tan Long commune said that he has spent nearly VND40mln on buying fertilizer for his rubber plantation…

 Reasonable tendance and exploitation for rubber plantations needed

 The development of small-sized rubber plantations in recent years has absorbed many people. But, there are still shortcomings in the tasks of tending and exploiting rubber plantations for change. The local rubber growers have also face difficulties in terms of transportation and consumption of their  rubber latex.

 Devaluation and diseases are two main worries of the local rubber growers. In the current period, they need to regularly monitor their rubber plantations to timely discover diseases and provide necessary chemical elements to strength resistance for them while having a reasonable exploitation to reach stability of rubber latex output…

Reported by Da Binh-Translated by K.T