Month: January 2021

Indonesia and Thailand are the world's two largest rubber exporting countries. It is just that Thailand is experiencing a critical phase due to a decrease in the amount of rubber production due to Pestalotiopsis leaf fall disease (PGDP) and floods that have hit several rubber-producing areas covering an area of ​​0.8 million hectares (ha). Head of Processing and Marketing of Products, South Sumatra Plantation Service, Rudi Arpian, said the incident...

The Ministry of Industry (Kemenperin) is committed to encouraging the rubber processing industry sector to be more productive and competitive and diversify products by spur the rubber product downstream program. This is supported by Indonesia's potential to become the second-largest natural rubber producer in the world. Head of the Industrial Research and Development Agency (BPPI) of the Ministry of Industry, Doddy Rahadi, said the national rubber processing industry sector's contribution...