Malaysia is ready to rubberise about 1,000 kilometres of state roads beginning this year, Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) director-general Mohd Akbar Md Said said.

He said the diverse use of rubber, especially for construction, would help reduce the current rubber stockpile and shore up flagging prices for the commodity.

Mohd Akbar also said the board was looking at how to increase the domestic consumption of the commodity in other sectors.

He was speaking to reporters after the opening of a workshop on ‘Specialty Rubbers for Green Rubber Products’ by MRB chairperson Muhammad Leo Michael Toyad Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur today.

- Bernama