Bagma Rubber Plantation and Community Rubber Processing Center changed the socio-economic landscape of Tripura

Land use pattern was also redefined, Malaysian clone plants have been planted in Tripura. Media team from Chhattisgarh led by PIB Raipur visited Bagma Rubber Plantation and Community Rubber Processing Center located in Gomati district of Tripura on Sunday. . During this, the team observed rubber plant cutting, rubber collection and rubber sheet making process.

Yashwant Dhote from Agartala

Rubber Processing Center Tripura: Rubber has made a big difference in the socio-economic scenario in Tripura. It has now become the most socially acceptable and commercially viable plantation crop in the state. Rubber production has strengthened the economic value of the plantation activity along with social importance. Rubber cultivation in Tripura, apart from its commercial value, is also playing an important role in rural development. This gives rise to socio-economic activities around which resettlement projects for shifting cultivators were once built. Land use patterns were also redefined. It is said that this crop once helped reduce insurgency in the state.

On this occasion, Arunabh Majumdar, Local Incharge Development Officer of Rubber Board, Government of India, said that in Tripura, rubber (Rubber Processing Center Tripura) has been planted in about 1,10,648.57 hectares area, out of which about 82,986.75 hectares is in yield stage. Rubber production is approximately 1,10,717 metric tons. He told that 46 thousand items are manufactured from rubber in India. Majumdar said that Malaysian clone plants have been planted in Tripura. These plants start producing rubber in 07 years.

Natural rubber production has become one of the important cash crops: Arunabh Majumdar said that natural rubber production has become one of the important cash crops in Tripura. It was started in 1963 by the State Forest Department. Tripura has become the second largest producer of natural rubber in the country after Kerala, accounting for about 9 percent of India's total production. Tripura also has the second largest rubber producing area in the country after Kerala.

More than 1 lakh people are connected

Majumdar said that more than 1 lakh people are involved in the field of rubber production. In Tripura, 1350 kg of rubber is produced per hectare, while in Kerala, an average of 1553 kg of rubber is produced per hectare. He said that there are 65 rubber producing societies in Gomti district, out of which the annual turnover of most of the societies is more than Rs 1 crore. Majumdar said that about 99 per cent of the natural rubber produced in Tripura is processed into various marketable forms like sheet rubber, Indian Standard Natural Rubber (SNR)/block rubber and centrifuged latex (CENX).