HCM City (VNA) – The Associationof Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) convened its 10th annual rubber conference in Ho Chi Minh City on October 23.
Themed “Re-engineering Value Chain forRevitalising Production Sector”, the conference sought to help rubber farmersrespond to price changes and boost sustainable development in processing.
The ANRPC comprises of 11 members, namely Cambodia,China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore,Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. These countries accounted for about 92 percentof global production of natural rubber during 2015.
According to Tran Ngoc Thuan, GeneralDirector of the Vietnam Rubber Group, Vietnam ranks third in the world in termsof rubber area, with 976,400 hectares.
Last year, the country earned 1.67 billionUSD from exporting 1 million tonnes of natural rubber. -VNA
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Workers at a rubber plantation (Source: VNA)
