The advent of rubber set off an amazing transformation in the landscape and rural economy of India's Northeast, pioneering in a way the emergence of the region as the principal rubber growing region in the country outside the traditional belt. The potential area identified by the National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning for rubber in the northeast is 4,50,000 ha against the actual area of 5,36,830 ha in the traditional region comprising Kerala and Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu.
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