Income From Rubber

[humblefalang]

Hello All,

The question is and i know there may not be an accurate answer but here we go.

about 1250 rubber trees that is just over 8 rai of land,

can someone guess what that equals to me in cash lets say a month, preferably someone whom knows what they are talking about i know it may be hard but for me i have zero idea,

have a shot i want to see out of all the answer to this post maybe an average,

can i make 1000 or maybe 10000 or maybe 100000(not ).

any ideas

thank in advance

[jamescollister]

HF Bad news I think, don't give up your day job. read both your posts and by the sound of it you have over planted and not taken care of your trees and didn't take care of them. Which means no money, probably not even worth the effort to tap. Jim

[Boeing757]

Hi HumbleFalang,

My wild guess, and it is very wild (as you requested) is 180,000 baht per year in your second year of tapping.

That makes the assumption that you make air dried sheets from your latex, the prices for rubber are similar to today's, you pay your tapper 40% and you have looked after and fertilised your trees.

In the first year of tapping it is likely to be 2/3 of the above amount.

The optimum number of trees per rai is 75-80. Jim is absolutely correct that you have far too many trees. I have seen figures that suggest that going up to 100 trees per rai is a waste, but it will not detract from the yield per rai.

Yours is closer to 125 per rai.

Clive

[Mosha]

Was that 8 Rai meant to be 18 Rai? The number of trees would make far more sense then.