Month: April 2021

Hit by La Nina, Production and Export for Natural Rubber in North Sumatra is Depressed

Hit by La Nina, Production and Export for Natural Rubber in North Sumatra is Depressed

The increasing rainfall intensity due to the La Nina phenomenon has reduced the production of rubber commodities in North Sumatra. Executive Secretary of the Rubber Association of Indonesia (GAPKINDO) for North Sumatra Edy Irwansyah said the decline in rubber production due to this natural phenomenon occurred since October 2020. This caused the crumb rubber processing factory to experience difficulties in supplying raw materials so that the volume of rubber exports...
GAPKINDO Conducts an El Nino and La Nina Webinar

GAPKINDO Conducts an El Nino and La Nina Webinar

The Rubber Association of Indonesia (GAPKINDO) held a webinar with the theme of the Extreme Climate Phenomenon El Nino and La Nina: Its impact on the production and availability of rubber raw materials crumb rubber industry. The activity, which was held on March 24, 2021, presented a keynote speaker, namely Dr. Dodo Gunawan (Head of the Center for Climate Change Information, Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics), Dr. Thomas Wijaya...
Natural Rubber Commodities in West Sumatra are starting to be replaced by Coconut

Natural Rubber Commodities in West Sumatra are starting to be replaced by Coconut

The West Sumatra Provincial Government no longer uses rubber as one of the leading commodities. Even starting in 2021, the West Sumatra Horticultural and Plantation Food Crops Office have not allocated rubber plants assistance. Head of the Office of Horticultural Food Crops and Plantation of West Sumatra, Syafrizal, said there were many reasons to no longer concern to plant natural rubber commodity. This, according to Syafrizal, was done because, among...