Myanmar rubber plantation industry status quo

2008/09 fiscal year, has planted 81,000 hectares of rubber. 2007/08 fiscal year a total of 364,500 hectares species, to close 80,000 tons of rubber, exported over 60,000 tons.

Myanmar's southeastern Mon State has a long history of rubber plantations, abundant rainfall, has a vast land suitable for rubber cultivation, Myanmar is a well-known plastic production provinces. Due to the economic benefits of rubber, is now extended to the Tenasserim Division, Kachin, Karen and Shan State. At present, Myanmar's western Rakhine mountain also launched a 10-year planning rubber plantation (2007/08-2017/18), the species is now 40,000 hectares. Myanmar since 1988, to allow freedom of investment in rubber plantations, rubber or sea border trade through the way of exports to China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia.