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Affected farmers are requested to apply for compensation through AIMS portal.
According to reports, escalating heat temperatures in the region led to the blaze.
Only a handful of growers were able to install irrigation facilities on the plantation.
Among farmers who have been hit most hard with price fall are the rubber cultivators, most of them settled in central Kerala.
The farmers say that the last time they experienced such a prolonged dry spell was two decades ago in 2004.
Most of the farmers are scared of returning to their farms on the fringes of forests since one of their own was killed by a gaur on March 5.
The government issued the order a day after the centre announced incentive for export of rubber sheets.
Police have permitted 5,000 farmers to gather at the ground but farmers' leaders said they could not promise to stick to that limit.
They allegedly also set ablaze at least three vehicles including a fire engine and ransacked and vandalised the APMC office.
Demonstrators barricaded official buildings, strewn tires across the streets, and ignited them in flames.