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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA) has voiced concern over the quality of domestically produced natural rubber, noting that it is lot rubber (low grade) which constitutes almost ...

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 ...

At a ground in the middle of a 7,500-acre secondary forest surrounded by an old-growth forest in the northern Lao province of Luang Namtha close to the Chinese border, dozens of local rubber tappers ...

ELAMGULAM, India, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Several Indian rubber farmers have put away their tapping knives and switched to planting other crops, as ample global supplies and sinking benchmark prices of the ...