FOR more than twenty years strong arguments have been advanced in favor of planting rubber in the Philippines. Yet of more than 4,000,000 acres of rubber planted during that time, less than 3,000 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Basilan provincial government has expressed alarm over the spread of a disease affecting rubber trees in the province. Gov. Jim Hataman Salliman said up to 800 hectares of ...

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — Basilan has been placed under a state of calamity due to a disease affecting rubber tree plantations in the province. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan approved a resolution ...

Cotabato Governor Emmylou Talino-Mendoza says her order is meant to protect the province's more than a P1-billion rubber industry from the destructive tree fungal disease GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines – ...

The Pestalotiopsis attack affects around 90% of the rubber trees in Basilan’s nine municipalities and two cities BASILAN, Philippines – The provincial government on Monday, January 23, declared the ...

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 ...