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Steps for regular export of rubber latex sought

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Producers urged to make long-term arrangements

KOTTAYAM: Rubber Board chairperson Sheela Thomas has called for the export of rubber latex on a regular basis.

Addressing a meeting of latex producers convened by the Rubber Board here on Thursday, Ms. Thomas urged latex producers to make long-term arrangements for exports. She said the public-sector rubber companies should make special efforts in this direction as they were the major producers of latex.

Price differential

The meeting noted that the prevailing market situation, wherein the international latex price is ruling higher than the domestic price, was favourable for exports.

The participants observed that it would be advantageous for the Rubber Producers' Societies (RPSs), which market their produce as latex, to switch to sheet-making considering the existing price differential.

Association of Latex Producers of India president Satheesh Abraham, representatives of the Plantation Corporation of Kerala (PCK), the State Farming Corporation, the Rehabilitation Plantations, Harrisons Malayalam Ltd., and Periyar Latex Ltd., participated in the meeting.

Sunny Sebastian, Director (Processing & Product Development); Ramesh B. Nair, Joint Director (Statistics & Planning) and Binoi Kurian, Deputy Director (Marketing) of the Rubber Board also attended the meeting.

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