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RUBBER COMMODITY PROFILE |
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| The
Industry |
 Rubber
planters in the Philippines are predominantly smallholders. It
is estimated that a farmer owns an average of three (3) to ten
(10) hectares of rubber farm. About 70% of rubber produced in
the country is absorbed by the tire and footwear industries.
World consumption has been increasing approximately by 208,000
Metric Tons (MT) per year since 1995
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| Criteria
for Selecting Potential Areas for Rubber |
- Existing and identified areas
by PLGU/MLGU
- Idle (Fertile and Marginal
rice and corn areas), Mono-cropping/Diversified
- Endorsed by the MPDO of the
LGU
- Priority Crops of the PLGU
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| Description |
- Rubber grows best at tropical
places with temperatures ranging from 20-28ºC and a well-distributed
annual rainfall
- It grows on almost all types
of soil provided that the drainage is adequate
- Mature rubber trees are usually
20-30 meters high, with grateful upward-extending
- Branches and a relatively
slim trunk
- Depending on conditions,
the rubber tree would usually take 5-6 years to reach maturity
when farmers could start tapping and collecting the latex or
milky sap from the tree
- Yield is around 0.85-1.20
Metric Tons (MT)/ha/ Year dry rubber
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| Challenges |
- Area planted to rubber is
dismally minimal
- Generally low productivity
- Long gestation period of
rubber
- Limited value-adding activities
for rubber products
- Lack of defined quality standards
for rubber products
- Weak linkage of farm producers
with key players in the marketing chain
- Limited access to credit
and financing
- Absence of enabling business
environment that will attract investments
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| Prospects |
- Growing domestic and global
demand for natural rubber
- Increasing price of rubber
in the world market
- Large potential areas suitable
for rubber in the Philippines
- Access to technical information/
knowledge on rubber industry
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| Trends |
- Tyre rubber is continuing to increase 2-35/
yr
- Contributed by tyre size and demand for winter
tyre
- Other technical development are less favorable
to tyre rubber demand
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| Rubber
Demand |
- Natural rubber share to total rubber consumption
- 43.37%
- Natural rubber demand 13.8M MT by 2020
- 3.4M MT gap by 2020
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| Production |
- The world natural rubber production to reach
12.4M MT in 2020
- Production in China and Vietnam are also
increasing at 0.55M MT and 0.39M MT, respectively
- The Philippines produced 351,565 MT of latex
in 2006 wherein Zamboanga Peninsula accounts for 43.34%
- In terms of area, Region IX ahs the highest
share of 39.26% followed by Region XII at 32.38% and Region XI
at 7.16%
- The total area planted to rubber in the country
is 86,850 hectares in 2006
- The recommended clones are RRIM 600 (Rb 99-01),
RRIM 712, RRIM 901, PB 217 (Rb 99-02) PB 235 (Rb 99-04), PB 260,
USM 1 (Rb 99-03), PB 330 and PB 311
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