THE simple act of rubber tapping may be insignificant but continuous loss of tapping days can lead to severe reduction in the world’s natural rubber (NR) production. The trend now indicates that the ...

The efforts to raise production of Natural Rubber by adopting rain-guarding techniques have started to pay rich dividends for rubber farmers. As per the statistics released by the Rubber Board, ...

Vijaylaxmi Joshi, Additional Secretary (Plantations) to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has stressed the need to improve production of natural rubber using scientific methods in order to meet ...

Over 1.5 lakh rubber growers and tappers would participate in 4,000 intensive mass contact programmes to be held in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka from June 6 to July 22. The aim of the programme, ...

Long term plans are underway to grow rubber in Sri Lanka’s war-free Northern region even though it is a dry area as experiments there have proved that this is possible, a top expert said. This comment ...