Rubber Farmers

Digital University Kerala (DUK) has created a landslide zonation atlas for rubber growing areas. The atlas will enable farmers to identify the susceptibility of their plantations to landslides and adopt appropriate agronomic recommendations.

A swarm of locust species have attacked banana, rubber and other crops in parts of plantation dominated districts of Tamil Nadu, causing concern among farmers over the possible destruction of their crops, but the government assured them that the agriculture department has been instructed to tackle the "menace."

It's 6:30 a.m. in the Indian city of Mysuru and the streets are full of the sound of whistles blowing as workers in olive green aprons and rubber gloves begin a door-to-door search. They have come to collect one of India's biggest untapped resources: garbage.

Thailand's junta chief has ordered eight ministries to buy rubber to help struggling farmers, reneging on a vow to end the country's long history of costly agricultural subsidies.

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 raw material squeeze their profit margins.

Digital University Kerala (DUK) has created a landslide zonation atlas for rubber growing areas. The atlas will enable farmers to identify the susceptibility of their plantations to landslides and adopt appropriate agronomic recommendations.

A swarm of locust species have attacked banana, rubber and other crops in parts of plantation dominated districts of Tamil Nadu, causing concern among farmers over the possible destruction of their crops, but the government assured them that the agriculture department has been instructed to tackle the "menace."

It's 6:30 a.m. in the Indian city of Mysuru and the streets are full of the sound of whistles blowing as workers in olive green aprons and rubber gloves begin a door-to-door search. They have come to collect one of India's biggest untapped resources: garbage.

Thailand's junta chief has ordered eight ministries to buy rubber to help struggling farmers, reneging on a vow to end the country's long history of costly agricultural subsidies.

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 raw material squeeze their profit margins.