Recently, the group of Member of Parliament has presented the draft of Rubber Benefits Sharing Act B.E. … and now it is in the process of gathering the suggestions from related parties via a website since 25 February 2020 following the section 77 in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2017. According to the draft of the Rubber Benefits Sharing Act B.E. …, it determines the regulations on the management system, production control, distributi...
The Thai Rubber Association (TRA) had been established for more than 69 years. Nowadays, TRA has 46 companies as its members. TRA aims to protect members’ interests as well as the rubber business sector. The operation of TRA is based on the principle of transparency and good governance. TRA has an important role in coordinating with government agencies, the private sector, farmer groups, and international rubber associations. Another important role of TRA ...
Since the end of 2019 until now, a lot of crisis happened around the world such as a series of massive bushfires across Australia, which affected the weather around the world, PM2.5 crisis occurred in many cities, and the COVID-19 pandemic, firstly found in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, China. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the COVID-19 outbreak as “a global pandemic”. Even though China can mostly control the pandemic, the COVID-19 outbreak...
The current committee of the Thai Rubber Association has been in the operation since 2018. The operation of the committee is based upon the following principles: 1) to operate on the principle of transparency and good governance; 2) to corporate with government agencies and private sector both at local and international level; 3) to cherish a close relationship with other rubber producing countries, particularly in Asia; 4) to act as a central body between r...
The New Pestalotiopsis leaf disease began in 2016 in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. The disease had damaged 388,800 hectares of rubber trees in Indonesia, 122,530 hectares in Thailand, and 10,000 hectares in Malaysia. According to the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC), in 2019, they forecasted that the disease made the rubber output dropped 329,000 tons in Indonesia and 121,000 tons in Thailand. Thailand has repo...
