Mumbai, March 19 -- Recent ANRPC statistics on NR production suggest that there is enough scope for new countries to be part of the global NR supply chain. There are countries with huge potential to grow NR and serve the global market. Myanmar and Colombia suit well in this bandwagon.

Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country, inducted to ANRPC as its newest member, boasts of a 'rubber cultivation history' of 140 years. For the year ended June 2018, Myanmar's rubber production rose to 2,42,000 tonnes from 3,11,000 hectares of yielding rubber. Interestingly, the country annually exports 62% (150,000 tonnes) of its production. The rubber sector in the country employs about 450,000-500,000 people mostly in areas of planting, maintenance and tapp...