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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HAIKOU, March 24 (Xinhua) -- 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 ...