WASHINGTON-Global natural rubber (NR) production will be about 8.9 million metric tons this year, some 2.2 percent less than 2008 and the biggest drop since 1993, according to officials of the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC).In Thailand alone-the world's largest NR producer claiming one-third of global output-production fell 13.9 percent in the first two months of 2009, the ANRPC told Reuters.
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