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Regeringen i Thailand satsar vidare på gummiträds odling, och kommer att erbjuda 8 miljarder baht i lån till låg ränta för att få ytterligare
800 000 rai planterade med gummiträd.
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Govt will fund rubber to meet world demand
Published on August 17, 2010
The government is planning to obtain a Bt8-billion loan to fund an extended project to plant rubber in an area totalling 800,000 rai across the country, Deputy Agriculture Minister Supachai Phosu said yesterday.
The money will be granted as soft-loans to rubber planters participating in the scheme, which was aimed at boosting rubber production volume to cope with growing global demand, he said.
The scheme will be implemented by the Office of the Rubber Replanting Aid Fund (RRAF) under the ministry's supervision. Rubber planters can repay the loan through a revenue scheme contributed to by rubber exporters who will profit from the rise in global rubber prices.
In its previous phase, RRAF subsidised rubber plantations for the first three years, with planters shouldering the cost for the next four years, in the seven-year period when rubber trees began to yield harvests.
In this phase, the RRAF will offer loans at low-interest rates throughout the seven-year period while planters and exporters share the profits, which are also raised to ensure a minimum profit for the planters.
Supachai said he could guarantee there would be no profiteering by politicians or anyone involved in the scheme.
Worrathep Wongsasutthikul, who serves on a national committee on promotion of administrative decentralisation, said rubber would be a key product in high demand across the globe, as synthetic rubber becomes rarer while the world's petroleum supply begins to run out.
Thailand has been and will be a major rubber production hub in the long run, because of a growing world population and 90 per cent of raw rubber produced in Asia.