Director General's Message
Our Journey Together
In the last couple of months, LGM, industry players and other stakeholders have worked very hard together to study issues pertinent to the welfare and further development of the rubber industry. We are now pleased to share with you our 10 year development plan, which will ensure competitiveness and sustainability of an industry which is very close to our hearts.
Our Honourable Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, YB Tan Sri Bernard Dompok had on 18 May, 2010 unveiled simultaneously two Strategies namely the Malaysian Rubber Industry Strategies and the Malaysian Rubber Board Strategies for the period 2010-2020. The Malaysian Rubber Industry Strategies aims at sustaining the Malaysian rubber industry by contributing to a high income economy. It envisages that with its various planned initiatives, national rubber production would increase to 1.8 million tonnes with a productivity of 1.8 tonnes per hectare by 2020.
The Malaysian Rubber Board Strategies on the other hand, charts a roadmap to enable LGM's transition to a global centre of excellence for rubber in the area of research & development. There is an urgent need to focus on delivering research of the highest quality in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors which meets the expectation of our stakeholders and are also commercially viable. To achieve LGM’s strategy, there are seven focus areas which would meet the needs of the government, the scientific community and other stakeholders that are related to the rubber industry. To facilitate this transition, LGM will focus immediately on identifying various areas of service delivery to provide efficient and effective support services.
As you will appreciate, LGM has ambitious plans for this year onwards to achieve both the strategies of the industry and our organization. For us to deliver there is a need for a mindset change to embrace this needful and timely paradigm shift. Management will focus on the development of human capital and capacity building through performance based evaluation. We realize our greatest asset and strength is in our people and developing your respective talent would be our key focus area.
I am very happy to share that these strategies were crafted by our very own management and supporting team with the support from the industry. People who had the vision to see the potential and outreaching effect of this development plan for the betterment and progress of the rubber industry. People who had the faith to believe in their own abilities, and the courage to act and move forward with strong conviction. I wish to thank them for believing in what we stand for.
I have to admit, it’s going to be a long and winding road ahead and not without its share of struggles and challenges. But I am banking on our greatest asset to support and contribute towards achieving these strategies. Yes, together, we can create an organizational culture in an R&D organization that Malaysia can be proud of. Armed with a positive mindset change, we can achieve what we conceive. We can progress by leaps and bounds.
Together, we can make it happen.
Best Regards
Dr Salmiah Ahmad
Director General
Malaysian Rubber Board