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I will ask the question once again:
Keep reading about rubber farmers abandoning cutting because of some break-even point of 60+ baht. Surely trees still grow, still produce latex even at a reduced rate if not fertilized etc. What is/are the costs of production..?Beats me, 50% of something is better than 50% of sweet f all surely?
We have maybe 80 rai under the knife; our neighbors, who cut for us, have maybe 20 rai.
FF Sake 600- 800 baht a day is better than Sweet f all!!?
All about the dollars, that 60 Bt is for RSS, not enough money to cover workers costs, wood electricity and taxes in my case.

My percentage tappers, say to much work for the extra few Baht, owner operator plantations, different story, they could make sheet, but small electric or hand rollers take for ever.

Now out here the locals can't get tappers, so they can only tap their best trees themselves, say 20 rai, leaving the other trees to stand idle.

Small plantations poor trees, the owners take other better paying jobs, when they can, or leave the wife to tap and head off to work in the city.

Local Doctor has about 200 rai, only has workers for 50 rai, so the output here will be down.

No one wants to work for peanuts, so you have to get at least the minimum wage, time will tell how much rubber is being produced.

Plus there is a drought, don't bother me much, we get too much rain, but inland from the mountains, it's dry as a bone and the rubber slows to a trickle, for some not worth the effort.

Thai's aren't really industrious in the first place, have rice and everything else is secondary.
About 8 years ago SIL and husband got a 50/50 split which included them making sheet...guess things have changed?
If I remember correctly they also 50/50 shared the cost of fertiliser and they had to spread it. Also the brush/weed cutting was totally their responsibility.
Our cutters 50/50 share fertiliser and brush/weed cutting costs...doubt they would include making sheets though.