As for ideal soil types, rubber trees are fairly diverse. They grow on volcanic, peaty, and acidic soils. Though the plants have spread, they must stay in a tropical or subtropical climate. They do ...

Extreme weather, including torrential monsoon downpours and a powerful typhoon, reduced rubber production levels in Asia and ...

Rubber trees, or Ficus elastica, are a pretty ubiquitous houseplant nowadays ... During the spring and summer, when the plant is actively growing, fertilize every two to four weeks. Bibb says a ...

The Ghana Tree Crop Diversification Project (GTCDP) has been officially launched by the Government of Ghana in collaboration ...

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 ...

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Enabling stable supply of natural rubber that meets growing global demand Southeast Asia supplies more than 90 percent of the world’s natural rubber. Because Southeast Asian rubber trees are ...

There are other options that may meet most of your preferences, including native trees such as cottonwood, basswood, river ...

ONE of the first rubber trees planted in Malaysia is now over a century old. It continues to thrive in the heart of Seremban, drawing tourists to Negri Sembilan. Planted in 1877 at the Seremban ...