Why In The News?
- 1.25 lakh hectares of rubber plantation completed in NE
- 37,000 hectares planted in Assam.
Rubber production in NE:
=> Rubber Cultivation In India’s Northeast - In the year 2018-19, the Northeast accounted for production of nearly 94,430 tonnes of natural rubber (about 8 percent of total production in the country).
=> In NE,Tripura is the the largest producer state.
=> In fact, Tripura has been declared the ‘Second Rubber Capital of India’ after Kerala by the Indian Rubber Board.
=> India is the fourth largest rubber-producing country in the world, after Thailand(1st),Brazil and China.
Main producing states:-
National Rubber Policy 2019:
=> The Department of Commerce has brought out the National Rubber Policy 2019.
=> The policy aims at increasing rubber production in North East India.
=> The climate of North East also supports rubber production but rubber is not produced up to its potential in NE.