El Nino to hit NR production this year

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THAILAND: Prolonged El Nino weather conditions are expected to decrease global natural rubber (NR) production in 2015, reports from the Thai capital of Bangkok suggest. The International Rubber Consortium (IRCo) said in a report that the El Nino phenomenon is the strongest in 18 years. The weather effect, it noted, is forecast by the US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as likely to linger until early 2016.