National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Natural rubber is an essential raw material which is used in manufacturing of a wide variety of products. India is the sixth largest producer and the second largest consumer of natural rubber. Despite not being a very favourable region for growing natural rubber, India continues to record the highest productivity among the major natural rubber producing countries. The rubber cultivating regions are Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharastra, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal and North Eastern state like Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. Kerala is the leading producer of rubber and Tripura ranks second in India. In India the rubber plantation sector is dominated by small holdings. Small rubber growers were unorganised and the processing of rubber was unscientific which resulted in very low quality of product. In order to solve the political and bureaucratic control on rubber growers and to promote self-help concept, the Rubber Board promoted formation of voluntary associations of small growers called the Rubber Producers Societies (RPS) in 1986. RPS functions as a self help group which aims at the economic and social empowerment of growers. This review focused on the status, opportunities and challenges of Rubber Producers’ Societies on the rubber farmers in India with special reference to North East. Formation of RPS has improved the welfare of small rubber growers. In India according to the recent estimates there are about 3000 numbers of RPS including 451 numbers in North East India.
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