Natural rubber is profitable now, since last year. Today quoting at ₹200/kg in Kottayam for RSS4 grade NR. Despite the high labor costs, any price above ₹175/kg is in the profitable territory.
All the rubber achayans who were forever whining about low prices are lying low now, planning holidays to Vietnam and Bali and regretting that they cut down half their estate two years ago to cultivate pineapple and rambutan.