Rubber Production in Kodimatha

THE Company was registered on 22nd June 1910 under the Travancore Joint Stock Companies Act at a tim... e when Joint Stock Companies were very few in number, under the name Malankara Rubber & Produce Co Ltd. It was the First Indian owned Rubber Plantation Company when Rubber planting and cultivation was a novelty. The Founder and Joint Managing Director of the Company Mr P John had initially set up a successful Oil Mill in Alapuzha. He represented Alapuzha in the Shree Moolam Praja Sabha and was also elected unopposed to the Legislative Council of Travancore. He was also a member of the Cochin+ More