The Main Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd has actually asked for the Karnataka federal government to carry out a Minimum Assistance Cost (MSP) plan for rubber growers in the state on the lines of the plan reached rubber growers in Kerala.
In a letter to the Karnataka Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah, the President of Campco, Kishore Kumar Kodgi, stated rubber growers have actually been impacted in Karnataka due to the high fall in rates of the product.
Almost 60,000 growers in the districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Kodagu, Shivamogga, Chikmagaluru, Hassan and Mysuru have actually used up growing of rubber on around 55,000 hectares of land in the Karnataka. Karnataka produces around 40,000 tonnes of natural rubber, he stated.
Specifying that the cost of natural rubber has actually boiled down from 242 a kg in 2011 to 140 a kg in 2023, he asked for the Karnataka federal government to support rubber growers in the state to tide over this scenario.
On lines of Kerala plan.
” It is asked for that the Federal government of Karnataka extend MSP for the rubber growers of the state on the lines of the plan reached the rubber growers in the neighbouring state of Kerala,” he stated in the letter.
Under the ‘Rubber Production Reward Plan’ of the Kerala federal government, 170 a kg is guaranteed as the minimum for RSS IV and RSS V grades of rubber. The distinction in between the assistance cost and the day-to-day recommendation cost authorized by the Rubber Board will be credited to the savings account of the farmer straight on the basis of purchase costs provided by the rubber manufacturers’ societies and properly licensed by the field officers of the Rubber Board. This plan is, interalia, anticipated to enhance the marketplace cost of rubber, Kodgi stated.
” For this reason, we request your great workplaces to extend the minimum assistance cost to the rubber growers of Karnataka on the lines of the plan extended by the Federal government of Kerala and safeguard the interest of the rubber growers in the state of Karnataka,” he stated in the letter.
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