The Rubber Industry Sub-Committee was informed recently about existing rubber plantations in Laguna and Quezon, which is considered as a welcome development since most rubber trees are situated in Mindanao where typhoons are rare.
Rubber is a high-value commercial product, identified as one of the priority crop of the Department of Agriculture. One of the sub-committee’s members and general manager of the First Laguna Rubber, a business enterprise which engages in rubber propagation, planting and marketing that started in January 2006, Engr. Rolando Rosales, shared this breakthrough to the group and invited the members to see the areas.
The sub-committee conducted the site validation last May in Laguna and Quezon, and was participated by representatives from the Traders Trust International, Latex Products, King’s Rubber, JDM Agroventures, CUP, Rubberfields, Inc., CocoaPhil, First Laguna Rubber, Bureaus of Plant Industry, Agricultural Research, and Agricultural Statistics, and National Agricultural and Fishery Council (NAFC).
Two rubber plantations were visited in Laguna. The first site, located in Barangay Ilayang, Butnog, Magdalena, owned by Atty. Ceriaco Sumaya, is a five-hectare farm with 3, 000 rubber trees. The second site, which can be found in Barangay Layugan, Pagsanjan, is a 2.5-hectare rubber farm planted with 2, 500 mature rubber trees and owned by Mr. Alex Pactananan.
The rubber plantation visited in Quezon is a five-hectare land area with 5, 000 mature trees, owned by former councilor Ernida Reynoso.
The plantations are intercropped with patola, squash, corn, coconut and cacao.Engr. Rosales emphasized that top pruning and double stocking methods are practiced in the farm to be able to resist typhoons and strong winds.
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