RUPAG rejects claims raw rubber export ban is hurting farmers, defends policy

The Rubber Processors Association of Ghana (RUPAG) has dismissed claims that the government’s temporary ban on raw rubber exports is depriving farmers, traders and aggregators of markets, insisting the policy is strengthening Ghana’s local processing industry rather than creating monopolies.

The association also projected that processing rubber locally rather than exporting it in raw form could generate an additional US$1.

Addressing allegations that local processors are refusing to buy rubber and are creating monopolistic conditions, the association said it had requested evidence from trader and aggregator associations on July 6, but had yet to receive any documentation to support the claims.