PUERTO LOPEZ, COLOMBIA — As Walter Lopez carefully stripped a diagonal ribbon of bark from a rubber tree in eastern Colombia, white latex began dripping down the cut and into a miniature pail nailed ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Specialty tire maker Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. (GRI) recently held two events with natural rubber farming communities, both held under GRI's Green X Circle initiative, ...

Rubber farmers in the South have a message they want to get across: they are not all rich and they and their families are at the mercy of crop prices. Like every other crop, rubber has its cycles of ...

Farmers can tap into the earning potential of rubber. Native to the rainforests of the Amazon in South America, these trees are generally found in low-altitude, wetlands, riparian zones, forest gaps ...

Ivorian farmer Affoua Mea decided one day she'd had enough. That's why I decided to start my own plantation." ...

Porsche has announced that it will be partnering with Michelin and investing $1.1 million to improve rubber farming sustainability in Sumatra, Indonesia. The project will run into 2024. Michelin began ...

46-year-old Bobby Martin, a native of Pala, closed down his business and jumped into full-fledged rubber farming about two decades ago when the latex prices were skyrocketing. But with the input costs ...

As the global demand for rubber has created boomtowns out of once sleepy villages, the hunt is on for quality saplings that deliver high yields yet are easy on the environment. Many farmers, lured by ...

Raipur: To explore the possibilities of rubber cultivation in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, Agricultural Research Centre is all set for experimental cultivation of rubber in one hectare area in ...