Palenque Rubber Plantations

Written bykikemonk in the category: Portfolio,Promoved

Natural rubber plantation and production benefit centrifuged latex. It is the largest producer of latex centrifuging the country, based on surgical glove industry. It has advanced technology and high production clones, making it competitive in an international environment. Additionally, the company is developing foliage crops, tropical flowers and woods accurate.

Chiapas Fund participates with 22.6% of the capital since its founding in 1995.

The goal of this company was to promote rubber cultivation as an alternative high value for producers, with a national market covered by imports, and making the conditions of soil and climate of Chiapas.

Rubber plantations Palenque is an impact model by several factors. It is the largest employer in the northern insured and Jungle of Chiapas, has more than 350 employees, of which over 40% are women, 67% have as their main language indigenous mother tongue and 89% is less than 25 years of age. Provide training to all its employees, transportation support, and more than 200 people support them with room and board house. The average salary is more than 2.5 times the minimum wage. Currently developing adult education projects and child care, for the benefit of its employees and their families.

The project has reforested more than 2,000 acres, takes the understory and conserves soil, so has benefited from support from Prodeplan and Conafor.

They have tested clones of Malay and Brazilian technologies have been developed for stimulation of trees, and yields have tested more than 4,000 liters of field latex per hectare per year.

The company is also involved with vegetative material federal and state programs to promote the cultivation, so the plantings in 3000 is growing entity has more than 19,000 hectares. Rubber plantations and advisory supports Guatemala trainers smallholders.