Rubber Production and Marketing with Emphasis on the Small Scale Growers and the Rubber Producer’s Societies ( RPSs) : A Literature Review

This article presents an account of various researches conducted in areas relating to rubber cultivation, processing, production and marketing with emphasis on the small scale growers and the RPSs.Rubber industry in India has been studied extensively: Studies on rubber cultivation by small growers, marketing of rubber produced by them and the RPS functioning has been enquired into by different researchers from time to time. As the present study aims at extending available knowledge on the area through the study, accounts of related studies are presented under two categories: 1. Studies pertaining to general aspects of rubber production, processing and marketing. 2. Studies focusing on the functioning of RPS and the small scale rubber farmers