The Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB; ) is the custodian of the

rubber industry in Malaysia Agriculture in Malaysia makes up twelve percent of the nation's GDP. Sixteen percent of the population of Malaysia is employed through some sort of agriculture. Large-scale plantations were established by the United Kingdom, British. These planta ...

. Established on 1 January 1998, it has under its fold three agencies ( RRIM, MRRDB and MRELB), which are now merged into one. The R&D work in

natural rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Types of polyisoprene ...

, accomplished by the

Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia The Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (RRIM; ) is a research center for problems and matters pertaining to rubber and its industry in Malaysia. History On 29 June 1925, the bill to incorporate the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya was pass ...

, has been used by the Malaysian

industry and other NR producing countries. The objective of MRB is to assist in the development and modernization of the Malaysian rubber industry from cultivation of the

rubber tree ''Hevea brasiliensis'', the Pará rubber tree, ''sharinga'' tree, seringueira, or most commonly, rubber tree or rubber plant, is a flowering plant belonging to the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, originally native to the Amazon basin, but is now p ...

, the extraction and processing of its raw rubber, the manufacture of rubber products and the marketing of rubber and

rubber products Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Types of polyisoprene ...

. The Director General of MRB is Dato' Dr Zairossani Mohd Nor.

External links

The Malaysian Rubber Board
Federal ministries, departments and agencies of Malaysia Rubber industry in Malaysia 1998 establishments in Malaysia Government agencies established in 1998 Ministry of Primary Industries (Malaysia) Organisations based in Kuala Lumpur {{Malaysia-org-stub