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KOTTAYAM, April 16 2021: Self-tapping along with low frequency tapping will reduce cost of production and make rubber cultivation more profitable, said Dr KN Raghavan, Chairman and Executive Director, Rubber Board. He was delivering the key note address in the function held at Rubber Board Head Office, Kottayam to honour rubber growers who tap their own rubber trees.
The average holding size of the small rubber grower is only 0.57 ha. Self tapping is desirable to get maximum profit from the small holdings. The adoption of low-frequency tapping would help them to find extra time for other jobs, Dr Raghavan added. He also distributed citation and tapping kit to the best self tapping owners selected under the Field Stations of Regional Office, Changanassery.
The programme was conducted as a culmination of the yearlong campaign of the Board to promote self-tapping and low-frequency tapping among rubber growers. The Rubber Board has selected 111 self-tapping owners under the Field Stations of various Regional Offices of the Board across Kerala.
Similar meetings were also conducted under these offices to honour the best self tapping growers in their respective regions.
Sucy Roy (Kattampak, Pongamthanam), KG Balakrishna Pillai (Keezholickal, Kuriyannoor), TT Jayappan (Thonnamkuzhiyil, Arunoottimangalam), R Jayachandran (Kizhakkethil, South Pampady), Shiju Philip (Alumkal, Thazhathuvadakara), AD Radhakrishnan Kartha (Saraswathi Mandiram, Pallickathode), AJ Alex Panicker (Adaangapurath, Madathumbhagam North), AJ Joseph (Arackal, Irumbayam) and KS Jaison (Kanikunnel, Mattakkara) were honoured in the meeting held in Kottayam.
K Mohanan Nair (Joint Rubber Production Commissioner- Development) IC, D Sreekumar, (Joint Rubber Production Commissioner- Extension) IC, M George Mathew (Deputy Rubber Production Commissioner) IC, Rosily Daniel (Assistant Development Officer), AD Radhakrishnan Kartha (rubber grower) and Shiju Philip (rubber grower) spoke on the occasion.