ORRAF was established in 1960 to improve the livelihood of small-scale rubber producers, especially those that are located in Southern Thailand. ORRAF is a government enterprise under the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. The three main objectives of ORRAF are: (1) to encourage farmers to replant their farmland by adopting improved rubber tree clones as well as high value economic tree species; (2) to help farmers to establish new rubber plantations; and (3) to encourage small-scale rubber producers to engage in the formation of cooperatives in order to have more efficient production costs, higher rubber sheet.
