The Moorje Rubber Producer's Society was established in 1998. The R.P.S. is located at Moorje, Bantwal Taluk of Karnataka State.The society is a grassroot level organization supported by the Rubber Board. The idea of R.P.S. has been conceived as a supporting hand for the activities of Rubber Board at village level. The R.P.S. disseminates rubber plantation technology right from seed to marketing. The reason behind conception of R.P.S. at Moorje was mainly to curb off Corynespora Leaf Disease (CLD) which was spread in and around Bantwal Taluk. Padmanabh Maninje pioneered the formation of R.P.S. The initial task of RPS was to co-ordinate the rubber small growers of Moorje and help the Corynespora Task Force constituted by the Rubber Board for eradicating the disease.