By Timothy J. Killeen The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the ...

Rubber tapping typically began at 5am when the cool air allowed the trees to exude latex. The latex was collected by midday, ...

A contestant taps a mock rubber tree during the final round of a rubber tapping contest as part of a national vocational skills competition for agricultural practitioners, in Haikou, south China's ...

His arrival opened up the Manú Basin to rubber tapping. With Piro as his troops, Fitzcarrald tried to enslave the tribes along the Manú. Hundreds died resisting him; the river is said to have ...

Rubber Board urges domestic procurement to stabilize natural rubber prices, emphasizing mutual support and quality production ...

"Rubber was once the state's prime cash crop but over the past decade, prices have plunged," he explains. Tapping rubber trees is a labour-intensive activity. In the evening or early morning ...

As the rubber tapping season commences in June, trucks are lined up outside the factory every day, waiting to offload locally sourced natural rubber, which will be processed into standard rubber ...

Now at Goodyear, I’ve moved from selling cars to selling tires, where the rubber meets the road ... As a leader, I focus on ...

In view of a rapid decline in the domestic prices of Natural Rubber (NR), which has been attributed to tyre companies abstaining from the market, the Rubber Board on Monday convened a meeting of the ...

abnormal heat waves that reduced rubber production and monsoon-related disruptions to rubber tapping. The prices plummeted 24 per cent to ₹187 per kg by October 21. Imports from April to ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Excessive monsoon rains following a drought in the world's top rubber producer Thailand and typhoon ...

Seamless reading experience. Save your favourite. M K Shanmuga Sundaram, chairman and ED of Rubber Board said the natural rubber (NR) production increased by 0.4% from a year ago to 694,000 tonnes.