TUARAN, Oct 19 — The proposal to increase the floor price of scrap rubber from the current RM2.50 per kilogramme to RM3.50 per kg will prevent smallholders from switching to other commodity crops, said Rural Development Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid.
“Many rubber smallholders have switched to planting oil palm because the price of rubber is low. That is why I support the idea to increase the price of scrap rubber. Although it is difficult, we must find a way. On Friday , the media reported that the government had been urged to consider raising the floor price of scrap rubber to RM3.50 per kg beginning next January to help increase the income of rubber tappers to above the poverty level.
Elaborating, Mahdzir said that apart from the floor price, more space to sell rubber products and expanding rubber plantations were two other important measures that could help rubber smallholders in the country to increase production and, thus, improve their socio-economic status.
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