Elias Lintucan Jr., more popularly known as Elias J, is a happy-go-lucky 25-year-old young man from Magpet, Cotabato who suddenly rose to fame for his famous dance moves and singing, which he ...

Natural rubber producers find it difficult to find tappers amidst issues where the younger generation is not keen on rubber tapping as a vocation but there is good news on the horizon. The Malaysian ...

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 ...

This photo taken on March 4, 2025 shows a mobile rubber-tapping robot in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province. Developed jointly by the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) and ...

Thailand is the world's largest producer of natural rubber, the vast majority of it from small-scale farmers AFP By the light of a head torch, Wanida Hityim deftly strips bark from a rubber tree, ...

MY world has long revolved around oil palm-rubber was merely a nodding acquaintance. I never tapped a tree or dreamt of latex. But someone tossed me a glove and asked, “What about rubber?” I hesitated ...

ELAMGULAM, India, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Several Indian rubber farmers have put away their tapping knives and switched to planting other crops, as ample global supplies and sinking benchmark prices of the ...

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 living ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A comprehensive and systematic approach to reorganise smallholder rubber farmers into a federation, coupled with replanting of higher-yielding rubber tree varieties, will be critical for ...