PUERTO LOPEZ, COLOMBIA — As Walter Lopez carefully stripped a diagonal ribbon of bark from a rubber tree in eastern Colombia, white latex began dripping down the cut and into a miniature pail nailed ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Specialty tire maker Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. (GRI) recently held two events with natural rubber farming communities, both held under GRI's Green X Circle initiative, ...

Farmers can tap into the earning potential of rubber. Native to the rainforests of the Amazon in South America, these trees are generally found in low-altitude, wetlands, riparian zones, forest gaps ...

Rubber farmers in the South have a message they want to get across: they are not all rich and they and their families are at the mercy of crop prices. Like every other crop, rubber has its cycles of ...

Bouncy, elastic, compressible and moldable—the unique properties of natural rubber make it one of the most widely used materials, found in products from pencil erasers and birthday balloons to condoms ...

As the global demand for rubber has created boomtowns out of once sleepy villages, the hunt is on for quality saplings that deliver high yields yet are easy on the environment. Many farmers, lured by ...

Saviour and Solomon Iwot are two brothers who took over rubber plantation, a family business, from their 82-year-old father, James Iwot. Both brothers, in their 50s and 40s, respectively, like their ...