Natural rubber growers are up in arms over the reported move to permit the tyre industry to import rubber cup lumps. Cup lumps are oxidised rubber, mostly contaminated with dirt and other extraneous ...

The General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU), has appealed to the government to take immediate steps to ban the export of cup lump [natural rubber] materials from the country in other to save the ...

Have you ever heard of a super trader? That person may be the reason rubber prices are so high. There is a little-known phenomenon in the rubber-growing belt of Southeast Asia, whereby a few ...

KOCHI: Can a common quality standard be prescribed for something that is unprocessed, contaminated with dirt, soot and other foreign materials? Can a quality standard be defined for a material that is ...

ABIDJAN, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Early in the morning, Yobouet Gnagne Roland, chairman of a rubber cooperative in Cote d'Ivoire, rushed to deliver cup lumps that were freshly harvested to a Chinese rubber ...

MANILA, Philippines — Local farmers will start producing their own rubber under a local brand and market these to manufacturing companies. Starting February next year, the Philippine Rubber Farmers’ ...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha gave a mandate yesterday for related agencies to work out strategic plans to upgrade the quality of block rubber and measures to sway farmers from putting sulphuric ...

Agona-Nkwanta (W/R), July 21, GNA- The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Rubber Out-growers and Agents Association (ROAA) has reached an agreement to waive three per cent African discount ...

A nurseryman examines budded rubber tree stocks at the Standard Integrated Farm in Ramon, Isabela, in this file photo. The Department of Agriculture (DA) said the Philippine Rubber Farmers Cooperative ...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered the Departments of Rural Roads and Highways to incorporate rubber into the construction and repair of roads to be carried out under a loan project. Gen ...