Thailand will propose to the ASEAN agriculture ministerial meeting in Myanmar on September 23-25 a plan to set up ASEAN rubber buffer stockpiles in order to stabilize rubber prices, said Agriculture Minister Pitipong Pungboon na Ayutthaya on Friday.
He,however, did not offer much details about the idea of rubber buffer stockpiles saying that ASEAN member countries would have to discuss the proportion of rubber stockpiles and each would have to maintain.
On the measures to stem rubber price slide, the minister said that the ministry planned to clear 400,000 rai of old rubber trees each year and to replace them with high-yield strain. The land clearing, he explained, will reduce rubber production and, at the same time, may drive up rubber prices.
Mr Pitipong said he would discuss with Natural Resources and Environment Minister Dapong Rattanasuwan on measures to deal with rubber plantations which encroach on forest reserves.
He disclosed that more than one million rai of forest reserves were encroached and grown with rubber trees.
He said that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha had wanted the illegal rubber plantations in forest reserves to be reduced and no more forest encroachment for rubber cultivation.
Another measure which will curtail rubber plantation and may boost rubber prices is to slow down rubber tapping, said the minister.
Thailand will propose to the ASEAN agriculture ministerial meeting in Myanmar on September 23-25 a plan to set up ASEAN rubber buffer stockpiles in order to stabilize rubber prices, said Agriculture Minister Pitipong Pungboon na Ayutthaya on Friday.
He,however, did not offer much details about the idea of rubber buffer stockpiles saying that ASEAN member countries would have to discuss the proportion of rubber stockpiles and each would have to maintain.
On the measures to stem rubber price slide, the minister said that the ministry planned to clear 400,000 rai of old rubber trees each year and to replace them with high-yield strain. The land clearing, he explained, will reduce rubber production and, at the same time, may drive up rubber prices.
Mr Pitipong said he would discuss with Natural Resources and Environment Minister Dapong Rattanasuwan on measures to deal with rubber plantations which encroach on forest reserves.
He disclosed that more than one million rai of forest reserves were encroached and grown with rubber trees.
He said that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha had wanted the illegal rubber plantations in forest reserves to be reduced and no more forest encroachment for rubber cultivation.
Another measure which will curtail rubber plantation and may boost rubber prices is to slow down rubber tapping, said the minister.
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