LATIN AMERICA BECKONS

摘要

Letter from Brazil (Rubber Asia May-June 2018) on the prospects offered by Latin American regional rubber market is very enlightening. Most Latin American countries today provide incentives for foreign investment in rubber plantation as import of NR is very costly, with freight charges running as high as over $200 per tonne. The climate is very conducive and the rubber productivity is also found to be very high, in some regions as high as 2,000 kg per hectare,