ISBN: - 978-93-88936-09-5 c) Big level dealers Big dealer buy and store raw rubber between 200 and 500 tonnes monthly. Some of the big dealers will receive the order from the industrial consumers and they execute it at the proper time. Some of them dispose their rubber products to the wholesalers. 5.2 (C) Wholesalers Wholesalers are industries dealing 500 to 1000 tonnes of raw rubber per month wholesales may mainly from middle level dealers, big dealers and estate holders. They in turn dispose of their rubber directly to big industrial consumers like M.R.T. ltd, Appollo tyre etc. There is no need for any broker and middleman in effecting the sale of rubber sheet to the retailer. The reason is that there is homogeneity about the prices paid for a sheet of rubber. The existing price of a kilogram of rubber sheets is Rs. 96/- the rubber sheets are off loaded at the retail shop. They are weighted and payments for the same are made without any loss of time. The retailers sell the rubber sheets mostly to the wholesaler who has established their bases of operation in Madras. While selling the rubber sheets they pay a tax of 8 per cent. They pay a tax of Rs.8, 000/- for the rubber sheets worth Rs. 1 lakh sold out to wholesaler. To avoid such tax the retailers in rubber mostly operate in black markets. To make matters worse. They manage to establish branches of their shops in busy cities as a prelude to carry on their illegal operations still more effectively. 5.2 (D) Co-operative Marketing The Co-operative Marketing Societies have entered the field of rubber marketing with the main objective of helping the small holders to secure a reasonable price for their produce. The cooperative societies dealing in rubber have to compete with private dealers who have adequate capital and a sound system of functioning to control the market. If properly organized, designed and financed these primary marketing co-operative societies can do much for solving the small holders1 marketing problems. 5.2 (E) Marketable Forms of Natural Rubber The important forms, in which the crop can be processed and marketed, are (i) Sheet rubbers (ii) Crepe rubbers (iii) Preserved field latex and latex concentrates (iv) Block rubber The crop collected in the form of latex can be processed into any of the above forms. But the crop collected as field coagulum can be processed only into crepe or block rubber. (a) Sheet rubber 131
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