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Stop planting, rubber tapping restriction, maintaining the Chinese market
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11/07/2014
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Facing lowest price pus within 3-4 years, MARD Minister Cao Duc Phat not require further expansion of rubber planting, at the same time tapping mode appropriate, reduce labor costs.
Area increases, prices decline
At Rubber Manufacturing Conference 2014 held in the city this morning, said DCP, 6 months of this year, rubber prices to the lowest level in the past 4 years. Rubber export price still tends to continue to decline.
Specifically, the price of rubber exports last month trading at around 5.2014 36-41 million / tons of latex preliminary processing depending on type. For fresh rubber, farmers sold at 7500-8000 dong / kg. 6.2014 to month, semi-processed rubber price reached only 40.5 million / ton, the price close to 40 million / ton.
Meanwhile, the rubber area of the country the past year continued to increase. As of mid-2014, the total area of the country was 955.600ha rubber, besting 115.600ha with the planning of the Prime Minister signed in early 2009. Rubber area beyond the planning mainly concentrated in the provinces Southeast as Tay Ninh, Binh Phuoc, Binh Duong ...
Explaining acreage increased in recent years, Tran Ngoc Thuan - Chairman of Vietnam Rubber Group, said that the time of high rubber prices, from 70-90 million / ton, more people have flocked to the bank or buy rubber planting the garden has grown. Prices rubber plantation for sale at one point for $ 800 million to 1 billion per ha.
Until now, when prices fell to levels equal to price, those on the scene began to fall into losses due to not enough profit to pay the bank interest. "But if you hit a tree garden yields 2 tons / ha, the current prices, the rubber can still profit from 6-10 million / ha," he stressed Pros.
Meanwhile, Pham Dong Quang - Deputy Director of the Cultivation Department, said the average yield of rubber out of the country was only 17.4 quintals / ha. Some local yield reached 2 tons / ha only HCMC and Tay Ninh. In contrast, the productivity of the North Central, South Central Coast only from 11-12 kg / ha.
Stop planting, tapping limited
As predicted, the rubber industry will continue excess of 2 years. Specifically, the more the world will admit 650,000 tons of rubber this year, so the pressure of the rubber output will be more stressful when Vietnam continues to add approximately 400,000 years old rubber put into operation.
In terms of the price of latex is not good for the current production, DCP provinces recommended not to continue to expand rubber cultivation area. At the same time, the application of technical measures in order to reduce the cost of tapping.
In particular, no rubber planting in the northern mountainous regions, including regions have been planned, including Son La, Dien Bien, Lai Chau. Instead, focus all age replanting orchards and intensive exploitation of existing plantations to increase productivity and quality.
For rubber plantations are trading period, investors can reduce fertilizer, shaving regime change from D2, ie 2 days tapping once to D3, D4, that way 3-4 days a tapping time, to reduce labor costs.
For the area of rubber extraction stage, DCP recommends not shaving conduct open mouth. As the old rubber garden, may liquidate, sell timber in preparation for replanting plant.
MARD Minister Cao Duc Phat said that the agricultural sector will persevere development goals rubber industry on the basis of restructuring, value-added, not run by area, focused on improving efficiency and sustainability of the industry. Accordingly, MARD will consider credit package priority for smallholder rubber, promote agricultural insurance on rubber tree ...
In addition, this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of local requirements shall review all development plans rubber concrete assessment of the development of this crop to develop appropriate direction.
Maintaining market China
According to many businesses, China is one of the main market of rubber not only Vietnam but also of countries with large area rubber as India, Indonesia ...
Thus, if trade relations between the two countries "have problems", Vietnam rubber will more difficult. Currently, many firms intend to "detour" for rubber exports to China through Cambodia, Singapore ... to ensure the product is consumed.
Source: http://danviet.vn/
