Thailand is the world's largest producer of natural rubber, the vast majority of it from small-scale farmers - Copyright AFP Jack TAYLOR Thailand is the world's ...
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 ...
SINGAPORE, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Excessive monsoon rains following a drought in the world's top rubber producer Thailand and typhoon damage in No. 5 grower China are reducing output of the tyre-making ...
Japanese researchers say they have produced rubber from a natural substance extracted from an edible, wild mushroom commonly found in the country. Researchers at Gunma University, west of Tokyo, have ...
On earnings of 75 ringgit (US$20.75) a day, how did Lan Siew and his wife prepare for Chinese New Year? They did not. It is unlikely that the rubber tapper and his family — from Jelebu in Negri ...