COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Specialty tire maker Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. (GRI) recently held two events with natural rubber farming communities, both held under GRI's Green X Circle initiative, ...

Rubber farmers in the South have a message they want to get across: they are not all rich and they and their families are at the mercy of crop prices. Like every other crop, rubber has its cycles of ...

FIRESTONE, Liberia—As Ebola exploded here this year, a rubber farm embarked on a crash course on how to tame an epidemic that has killed thousands of people and derailed governments across West Africa ...

An American farmer on a tractor: The words conjure up an image of an overall-clad figure riding through amber waves of grain, maybe in Nebraska. But it was not on the Great Plains that the ...

Saviour and Solomon Iwot are two brothers who took over rubber plantation, a family business, from their 82-year-old father, James Iwot. Both brothers, in their 50s and 40s, respectively, like their ...

XIAOMANSAN VILLAGE, China -- Roosters break into a dissonant chorus at dawn as fog clings to the bamboo grove encircling a cluster of wooden houses. Villagers apply fresh logs to fires, boiling water ...

Itanagar, Feb 23 (PTI) Given the suitable agro-climatic condition and vast land available in Arunachal, rubber could become a money spinner for the local people, Rubber Board of India chairman Sheela ...

Raipur: To explore the possibilities of rubber cultivation in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, Agricultural Research Centre is all set for experimental cultivation of rubber in one hectare area in ...

Varkey George shows a grapefruit tree on his farm in Kottayam. He plans to diversify his fruit farming. | Image courtesy of Varkey George via Mongabay. Thidanadu panchayat stands in the midst of ...

As Ebola exploded in Liberia this year, a rubber farm embarked on a crash course on how to tame an epidemic that has killed thousands of people and derailed governments across West Africa. One morning ...