The long-term cost of domestic rubber was upside down. "A glass of rubber water is not as expensive as mineral water."

Private rubber plantations in Hainan and Yunnan are mainly operated by farmers in a decentralized manner, and their cultivation and management techniques are outdated and the yield is lower
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In Hexuanling Village, Beida Town, Wanning City, over 100 rubber trees planted by poverty-relief household Jiang Chunmei grow short, densely and disorderly, and lack of management and protection.
The yield of her rubber plantation is only one-third of the rubber plantation in the reclamation area.
Jiao only has an income of more than 10 yuan
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At the same time, the cost of domestic natural rubber production remains high
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The reporter learned that the direct production cost of Haijiao Group's natural rubber reached 16,000 yuan per ton; the comprehensive cost of Yunnan Natural Rubber Industry Group's self-produced dry rubber was also as high as 15,000 yuan per ton.
Only the labor cost of rubber tapping and rubber gardening has reached About 10,000 yuan per ton
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The price of natural rubber continues to run at a low level and has fallen below the cost for many years
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The cost of labor and land in Southeast Asian countries is significantly lower than that in China.
For example, the cost of rubber production in Thailand is about 8,000 yuan per ton.
When the price of rubber is low, there is still power to tap rubber
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The person in charge of the Red Forest Branch of the Haijiao Group pointed out that, for example, the monthly income from rubber tapping is 1,500 yuan, which means that Hainan farmers are struggling to live, but it has reached the middle-to-high income level of farmers in Southeast Asia
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The low efficiency has led to the abandonment of pipes and cuttings in rubber plantations, and there is greater pressure on the planting area and yield guarantee
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Over the past four years, the number of glue workers in the Red Forest Branch of Haijiao Group has been reduced from more than 900 to more than 500.
The average age of glue workers is close to 50 years old
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The company's 18,000 mu of newly opened rubber tapping plantations, aging rubber plantations, and remote rubber plantations are at risk of being invaded by surrounding farmers to plant other crops due to low efficiency and unmanned rubber tapping
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"Due to the low rubber price, the annual income of rubber workers has dropped by an average of 10,000 yuan per year in the past two years.
Many people have given up rubber tapping and went out to work
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" Zhou Hongwei introduced that his third team of Banshuai had 110 villagers who contracted rubber plantations.
Only 43 people are still tapping rubber at home
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State-owned rubber plantations are undertaking the task of ensuring supply and cannot be “willed” to stop cutting.
The abandonment of private rubber plantations is even more serious
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Around 2012, the Dongxing base branch of Haijiao Group was able to purchase 5,000 tons of dry glue from the local private rubber plantation each year.
In recent years, the purchase volume has been reduced by half
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Wu Yongchun, who invested in a rubber plantation in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, told reporters that he invested 1.
5 million yuan to contract 160 acres of rubber plantation in 2010, and the conditions for opening were already available in 2016
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However, due to the low price of rubber and unable to pay the glue workers' wages, it has not yet started
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"The rubber plantation is currently unmanaged, and I can't find another home if I want to transfer it
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"Make up the chain" and "strong chain" to improve efficiency and restrain losses

Interviewees predict that for a long period of time in the future, natural rubber prices will still be difficult to exceed domestic production costs
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In order to ensure the stable and sustainable development of the industry, it is recommended to increase support for the rubber industry, reduce losses at the planting end, and extend the industrial chain to improve the overall benefits of the industry
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It takes 6 to 8 years from rubber planting to rubber production.
During this period, it needs continuous investment but no income
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The grassroots rubber planting farms in Yunnan and Hainan look forward to increasing subsidies during the non-production period of natural rubber, supporting enterprises and farmers to renovate and renovate aging, low-yield rubber plantations and promote improved varieties, and develop under-forest economy in accordance with local conditions to improve the overall benefits of rubber plantations
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At the same time, explore the inclusion of natural rubber in the scope of public welfare forest compensation and ecological compensation
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In order to solve the problem of abandonment of rubber plantations and pipes, Hainan and Yunnan have explored and implemented natural rubber price insurance, natural rubber income insurance, and natural rubber "insurance futures" pilot projects in recent years to compensate for the losses caused by the fall in prices of rubber planting entities
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Industry insiders suggest that target price insurance can be carried out on this basis, and the target price of insurance should be appropriately set with reference to the complete production cost of natural rubber to cover the cost of planting rubber and the reasonable benefits of planting rubber
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The working environment of rubber tapping is harsh, the time is reversed day and night, and the front-line rubber workers generally suffer from occupational diseases
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In the case of the rapid loss of rubber workers, the grassroots rubber workers called for the rubber workers to be included in the catalog of special types of work and be given retirement benefits for special types of work
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The emergence of new technologies has brought a turning point in solving the problem of "unmanned rubber tapping"
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Scientific research institutions and rubber companies have developed intelligent equipment such as electric rubber tapping knives and "one machine, one tree" rubber tapping robot, but the cost is too high to be fully deployed
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Wu Xiaodong, general manager of the Haijiao Group’s corporate development department, said that intelligent rubber tapping equipment can be included in the scope of agricultural machinery subsidies in a timely manner, and an investment fund can be established to support relevant teams in scientific research
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On the basis of reducing the losses in the planting process, the rubber industry needs to improve quality and efficiency and extend the industrial chain to get out of the predicament
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The reporter found that the rubber processing industries in Yunnan and Hainan are small, scattered, and chaotic, with large losses
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With an annual output of more than 300,000 tons of natural rubber in Hainan, there are more than 100 processing companies
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Ning Shunliang, secretary of the Party Committee of Yunjiao Group, said that the number of rubber processing plants in Yunnan and the scale of production capacity far exceed the actual output of local rubber, and there are frequent phenomena of grabbing raw materials at high prices and selling products at low prices
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"The elimination of outdated natural rubber primary processing capacity, and the development of high-end rubber products industry may bring opportunities for'curving overtaking'
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" Xie Shuigui, deputy director of the Rubber Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, suggested that we should speed up the elimination of outdated natural rubber primary processing capacity and renew Formulate environmental protection standards for natural rubber processing, increase the integration of private initial processing plants, and realize a large-scale, standardized, and green processing system
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At present, China's rubber primary processed products have poor quality consistency and high-performance natural rubber is dependent on imports
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Huang Huasun suggested that a batch of key core technologies and equipment should be innovated to overcome basic common technologies in key areas such as variety improvement, quality control, rubber tapping mechanization and automation, new materials, and new rubber products, and accelerate the use of natural rubber materials in aviation tires and high-speed rail partitions.
Application in high-end products such as shock absorption and submarine sealing ring, and promote the development of downstream products industry
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