A pioneering ethical fashion company is helping maintain traditional livelihoods and prevent deforestation in the Amazon, writes Matilda Lee Rubber-tapping in the Amazon rainforest is a ...

Officials blamed "erratic weather, declining in tapping activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Pestalotiopsis leaf fall disease." Natural rubber supply will be further constrained by a shortage ...

THE simple act of rubber tapping may be insignificant but ... the current heavy rainfall is the culprit leading to poor tapping activities among smallholders, who are the backbone in the world ...

For more than 30 years Babu Joseph has been tending rubber trees on his small farm in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Kerala used to be home to thousands of producers like him, who made a ...

Spot rubber continued to make moderate gains on Friday due to low supply fears as the recent rains have disrupted tapping activity. RSS 4 improved to ₹121 (₹120) a kg, according to traders and ...

Meanwhile, rubber-tapping activity has stopped in Yunnan and Hainan in China and affected by rainfall in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Hence a grower who adopts LFT needs to do tapping and related activities only once in a week, allowing him to utilise the services of professional rubber tappers from rubber tappers’ banks more ...

president of the Indian Rubber Dealers’ Federation said production, at 8.75 lakh tonnes last year, was likely to touch 9.5 lakh tonnes this year, especially with the inclusion of new tapping ...

China has designed artificial intelligence (AI)-powered rubber-tapping robots in an attempt to tackle chronic labor shortages plaguing its natural rubber industry, state media reported Monday.

according to the Malaysian Rubber Board. Supply decline is due mainly to "erratic weather, reducing tapping activities, Pestalotiopsis leaf fall disease and wintering season in Southern Sumatera, ...

Puttur: The Elephant Task Force (ETF) team, which had arrived from Chikkamagaluru to drive away wild elephants that had camped in Kolthige village, has concluded its operation and returned. The task ...