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Rubber Board chairperson Ms Sheela Thomas reiterated that the entire quantity of rubber shown as stock would not be available in the market for immediate consumption.
Of the total quantity of natural rubber, the stock with the processors and manufacturers and nearly 50 per cent of the stock with growers were not available for trading, Ms Thomas said in a statement on Thursday.
She asserted that the statistics of the Board has been prepared realistically by collecting, compiling and collating data from different sources.
The chairperson was responding to the doubts raised by certain quarters that questioned the accuracy of the data possessed by the Board.
The stock of natural rubber in the country at the end of January 30, 2011, is provisionally estimated at 3,27,115 tonnes. This includes various forms of rubber, that too at various levels such as growers, dealers, processors and manufacturers.
The RSS grades (sheet rubber) available in the market is estimated to be only 1,29,500 tonnes (about 40 per cent of the total stock), she said.
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