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

Yokohama Rubber has begun practical testing of a technology that gauges air pressure from the sound made by tapping on a tire. The company announced that it has developed an experimental pressure ...

In the wake of low price for rubber, the Rubber Board has advised growers to adopt weekly tapping, to curtail the cost of production. Kottayam: In the wake of low price for rubber, the Rubber Board ...

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/commodities/self-tapping-along-with-low-frequency-tapping-can-make-rubber-cultivation-profitable-kn-raghavan ...

Kurian Thomas, a small time rubber planter, never tapped his trees during Karkidakam, a period marked by heavy rains. KOTTAYAM: Kurian Thomas, a small time rubber planter, never tapped his trees ...

Mohamad Jantan, 67, says life is tougher for rubber tappers these days. Mohamad Jantan closes his eyes for a moment as he mentally focuses on his earliest times in the Melaka rubber estate where his ...

Rubber tapping census suggests pooling to tackle labour shortage Declining number of trees, disproportianate wage structure highlighted as key concerns Updated - January 20, 2018 at 01:41 PM.

KOTTAYAM: The Rubber Board has developed a new system of tapping in which tapping can be done on only one fourth circumference of the tree, instead of the present half spiral. By adopting this new ...

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 ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's natural rubber output in 2017/18 is likely to jump 15 percent to its highest in four years at 750,000 tonnes as a spike in benchmark prices prompts farmers to start tapping ...

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 ...