BENTONG, March 27 (Bernama) -- Rubber plantation smallholders must use the Smallholders Sales Registration Card to sell their produce beginning next month.
Plantations Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said the card, which was issued free, was to overcome frequent theft of rubber.
"With the card, the Malaysian Rubber Board (LGM) will know who sells and if the source was valid," he told reporters after a visit to the rubber purchase premises of Mohd Raffi Mat Arif in Kampung Lebu near here Saturday.
Also present was LGM director-general, Dr Salmiah Ahmad.
Dompok said rubber traders were only allowed to buy rubber from card holders and enforcement, including suspension of licences, would be carried out on traders who bought stolen rubber or from individuals who did not have the card.
He said the card will be officially launched next month before the programme was introduced to smallholders for registration and for the providing of information.
Dompok however said that about 4,000 cards had been distributed to smallholders in a pioneer programme last year.
"There has been a drop in rubber theft since the card was introduced," he said.
Dompok said smallholders who hired foreign workers needed to have information of their workers for purposes of monitoring.
(bernama.com)
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