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 ...

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 ...

Roslai Hasan makes incisions on a rubber tree's bark to tap rubber at a plantation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Reuters/Samsul Said Natural rubber supplies ballooned in recent years as Asian producers ...

The rubber rally could also trim margins for tyre makers and force them to raise tyre prices. "The spike in rubber prices has renewed the interest of farmers in tapping," Rajiv Budhraja, director ...

HAIKOU, March 24 (Xinhua) -- In a bid to tackle the chronic labor shortages plaguing its natural rubber industry, China has unveiled a mobile rubber-tapping robot, marking a leap forward in ...