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Economic Analysis of Smallholder Rubber Plantations in West Garo Hills District of Meghalaya

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Rubber plantations in India were started by the British. The economic importance of rubber plantation in India hardly needs any emphasis. Rubber plantations supply raw materials for the production of many industrialised goods required for automobiles, aircrafts, railways, textile industries, sports goods, engineering goods and even for building roads. On account of the multifarious uses to which rubber can be put to, the consumption of rubber in the world as well as in India has been increasing steadily. The total rubber plantation area in India is 5.70 lakh ha. India is the third largest producer of natural rubber next only to Thailand and Indonesia contributing about 9 per ...

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