DURING the early years of rubber planting in the East considerable optimism prevailed in certain quarters as to the powers of the Para rubber-tree (Hevea brasiliensis) to resist disease in its new ...

Among the systems in operation, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the protocol allows developing countries including Sri Lanka to participate in new economic ventures like planting tree crops ...

Unlike rubber, it didn’t crumble in salt water and stayed firm on setting. This new wonder material was called Gutta Percha, after the tree that it came from, and it would blow Victorian minds.

Connect rubber-producing countries and consuming countries through early-stage measures against rubber tree leaf fall diseases Infection of rubber leaf fall diseases has been widely spread in ...