A total of 71 rubber tappers from over 30 plantations and community rubber farms took part in Cambodia’s first-ever rubber tapping competition. The December 16 event, held in Tbong Khmum province, was ...

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 ...

Close on the heels of the Coconut Development Board's attempts to popularise coconut plucking devices, the Rubber Board is trying to develop a mechanised rubber tapping knife. "The board has come ...

The board has invited scientists to develop a mechanised knife that can even be handled by unskilled people. The successful model will get a cash prize of Rs.500,000. Selected designers will have to ...

The Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA) has voiced concern over the quality of domestically produced natural rubber, noting that it is lot rubber (low grade) which constitutes almost ...

MUMBAI/JAKARTA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Global natural rubber output could drop for a second straight year in 2015 as prices near six-year lows have prompted Asian farmers to curtail tapping during their ...

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 ...

An autonomous rubber-tapping robot works at a rubber plantation attached to a natural rubber industry company in south China's Hainan Province, Nov. 19, 2019. The robot recently started an on-site ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a bid to tackle the chronic labor shortages plaguing its natural rubber industry, China has unveiled a mobile rubber-tapping robot, marking a leap forward in agricultural automation. Developed ...