Indian Government promotes rubber in Tripura

Tripura State, India - Shri Jairam Ramesh, India's Minister of State for Commerce has completed a two-day trip to Tripura State, during which he said, “Tripura is India's next frontier in the rubber industry”. In a statement, the Minister said, Tripura is now India's second largest producer of natural rubber after Kerala. The Rubber Board has identified 100 000 hectares as the potential area under rubber in Tripura, of which roughly 31% has come under cultivation. Shri Ramesh pointed out that Assam is the other northeastern state where there is great potential for rubber cultivation, but here of the 200,000 hectare identified as rubberworthy, just about 14,000 hectare (or 7%) has been brought under rubber cultivation.

Shri Ramesh said that only by increasing production in Tripura and Assam, apart from increasing productivity in Kerala, will the country's growing demand for natural rubber be met without resorting to imports.

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Press release from Indian Government