Agartala (PTI): Tripura, the second largest rubber-growing state, will sell processed rubber wood board, which can be used for making furniture, in the domestic and the overseas markets.
The Tripura Rubber Wood Factory, a rubber timber processing unit run by the Tripura Forest Development Plantation Corporation, has started producing solid rubber wood boards (8ftx4ft) of different thicknesses, TFDPC General Manager Arup Ratan Sharma said.

The rubber wood and rubber wood boards can be used for making furniture, he said.

Tripura, which produces about 20,000 tonne annually, is the second largest rubber-growing state in the country after Kerala. Up to 85,000 hectare have been identified for rubber plantation.

Encouraged by the huge production of rubber in the state and its potential for expansion, the Tripura Industrial Development Corporation (TIDC) and the Rubber Board of India are setting up a rubber park, the second of it's kind after Kerala.

The park would be set up on 50 acre at Bodhjungnagar, the industrial growth centre in West Tripura district, TIDC Chairman Pabitra Kar said.