With the continuing spread of the Pestalotiopsis Secondary Leaf Fall Disease on major natural rubber producing countries, the National Banner Program Committee on High Value Crops-Rubber discussed during its first quarter meeting on February 24, 2022 the possible interventions to prevent and monitor its entry into the country. The Committee invited International Rubber Research and continue reading…
With farmers gradually moving away from rubber cultivation due to prolonged low prices of natural rubber (NR), the National Banner Program Committee on High Value Crops-Rubber deliberated on a sustainable price mechanism (SPM) during its third quarter meeting on September 13, 2021. The Department of Trade and Industry-Zamboanga Peninsula noted that SPM could help mitigate continue reading…
“Is rubber farming sending our smallholders to poverty?” This was the resonating question of Alfonso Jack Sandique, Chairperson of the National Banner Program Committee on High Value Crops-Rubber (NBPC on HVC-Rubber), during their second quarter meeting on June 30, 2021. Traditional rubber programs of the government were deemed inefficient in terms of generating higher and continue reading…
If a rubber farm was optimized to improve the latex production and increase the income of its farmers and tappers using an “improved” technology, what would it looks like? This is what Alfonso Jack Sandique showed to the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF)- Knowledge Management Team during an interview right in the middle of continue reading…
