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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Indian rubber prices may rise this week to near record high riding on strong demand from tyre-makers amid limited supplies due to rains in key growing regions, dealers said.

MY world has long revolved around oil palm-rubber was merely a nodding acquaintance. I never tapped a tree or dreamt of latex. But someone tossed me a glove and asked, “What about rubber?” I hesitated ...

XAPURI, Brazil (AP) — When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sworn in as president of the second most populous country in the western hemisphere Jan. 1, few challenges will be greater than fulfilling his ...

India's natural rubber production is likely to fall sharply in October and November, as heavy rains have been disrupting tapping activity in the country's top producing southern state of Kerala, ...

The cabinet has approved the Rubber Estate Organisation's (REO) request for a loan of six billion baht from the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) to buy rubber products to ...