... While rubber cultivation is expanding rapidly in Lao PDR, the Government and different international organisations, including institutional arrangements, planning, policy, regulation and the information, ... rapid and largely uncontrolled expansion of rubber cultivation. It is clear that growth in China’s demand for rubber is influencing the Chinese investment in rubber planting in northern of the Lao ... areas in China, rubber trading and marketing in the Lao- Chinese border, and current and future demand and supply for rubber in the border area. The detail of the support questions are in the annex...