Economic importance,

• Contribution to wealth by creating yearly income (contrary to season cultures)
• An impact both agricultural and industrial
• Involvement in rural development projects
• Drive the development of infrastructures (road networks, electricity, etc.)

Social importance,

• Job generator, support local communities in rural areas, fight against emigration
• Training / schooling / health

Environmental importance: cultivation is environmentally friendly

• Means to reforestation
• Soil protection and fight against soil erosion
• Comply with the Kyoto protocol (by substitution of synthetic rubber)
  
  • Save fossil fuel
  • Energy saving
  • Offset carbon
• Low carbon footprint process of production (few or no pesticides and little need of fertilizer)