KUCHING: The Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) has announced that it is issuing the Rubber Transaction Authority Permit (PAT-G) for free.
This was disclosed by federal Plantation Industries and Commodities Deputy Minister Datuk Willie Mongin, who stated that the purpose was to create a database of rubber smallholders and launch rubber trading at plantation level.
“Moreover, it is also to prevent rubber theft and act as a supporting document for any assistance or incentives from the government,” he said in a Facebook post on Thursday (March 10).
At the same time, Willie also explained the Oil Palm Smallholders Replanting (TSPKS) and Oil Palm Smallholders Agriculture Input (IPPKS) soft loan schemes.
For the TSPKS scheme, applicants can get financing rate of RM10,000 per hectare in Peninsular Malaysia or RM14,000 per hectare in Sabah and Sarawak with repayment starting in the fifth year.
The maximum area for this scheme is 6.5ha, and the scheme aims to ease the financial burden of oil palm smallholders in implementing replanting and purchase of agricultural input.
Meanwhile, the IPPKS scheme offers applicants RM2,500 per hectare with maximum financing of RM16,250 and duration of repayment is 24 months.
The objective of the scheme is to assist smallholders in purchasing agricultural input such as seedlings, fertilizer and pest control materials like herbicides and pesticides.
