ISBN: - 978-93-88936-09-5 CHAPTER - VI FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS 6.1 INTRODUCTION In this chapter, at attempt has been made to recapitulate the major findings of the present study and it has cited a few suggestions for eliminating the problems associated with the rubber cultivation and marketing of natural rubber in the study area. In the previous chapters various aspects of the rubber growers have been explored and explained. The entire study was based on both the primary and the secondary sources of information. It was covered in three Taluks - Kalkulam, Vilavancode, and Thovalai in Kanyakumari based on three categories of rubber growers namely small, medium and large size of land under rubber cultivation. This study reveals that the production and marketing of rubber in Kanyakumari District in purely explorative in nature. The findings, suggestions and conclusions arrived at are listed below: 6.2 MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE STUDY 6.2 (A) Findings related to secondary data • India is currently the sixth largest producer of NR in 2015 with a share of 4.7 percent of world production. During 2015, the output in main producing countries viz; Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam increased, whereas production in China and India decreased during 2015. Global SR production during 2015 was 14.46 million tonnes as against 14.179 million tonnes in 2014, registering an increase of 2.0 percent. There is a highly positive correlation between total world rubber production of main countries and the study period from 2001 to 2015. • Consumption of natural rubber increased from 7333 tonnes in 2001-02 to 12137 tonnes in 201415, except in 2009-10. Consumption of synthetic rubber also increased from 10253 tonnes in 2001-02 to 19984 tonnes in 2014-15, except in 2008-09. Increase in the economic development in the emerging economies like China and India had played a significant role for the increase in the consumption of rubber both natural as well as synthetic rubber. The highest mean score of Consumption of Natural rubber in the world for the study period registered is 1168 tonnes in 2014. • The total production of natural rubber in the country and RSS grades of rubber sheets obtain the value is 0.999. It is a highly positive correlation. • The total rubber area is increased and automatically affects the other variables like tapped rubber area, production and average yield/ha also increased. In the year 2013-14 and 2014-15 155
164 Publizr Home