Metallurgy / Chemicals / Rubber & Plastics

According to a report by Thai media on June 10, the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand expects that the total rubber export will reach 4 million tons in 2022, of which the export to China will not be less than 40%. value.

Alongkorn, chief adviser to the minister of the Thai Agricultural Cooperative Society and chairman of the Rubber Industry Coordination Committee, said on the prospects of Thailand's rubber exports in 2022 that with the stabilization of the global epidemic and the economic recovery of various countries, it is believed that rubber exports this year are expected to return to pre-epidemic levels. The annual export volume will reach 4 million tons. It is hoped that the government will promote the transformation of the low-carbon green agricultural economic development model and effectively reduce the carbon emissions in all aspects of rubber planting. At present, the pilot project has been carried out in the natural rubber rubber plantation with a total area of 20,000 mu in Nakhon Si Nakhon Province.

Thailand is the world's largest producer of natural rubber, the export of latex gloves also ranks second in the world, and the export of tires also ranks third to fourth. The rubber production capacity of Thailand's main competitors is increasing year by year, such as South Africa, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, etc.