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Jungle rubber facilitates the restoration of degraded soil of an existing rubber plantation

Journal of Environmental Management, 2021
Conversion of forest to rubber plantation is one of the most common land-use change in the humid tropical region. It is one of the fastest expanding farms that lead to various socioenvironmental issues. We investigated the effect of this land-use change on soil physico-chemical properties by surveying different succession stage rubber plantations ...
Huanhuan Zeng   +5 more
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Variation in Plantation Rubber

1927
Malayan Agricultural Journal, Volume 15, Issue 8, pp.
Eaton, B. J., Bishop, R. O.
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Are tree plantations climate-smart? The case of rubber tree plantations and the natural rubber commodity chain. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Industrial tree crop plantations often enter in direct competition for land with forests. In those cases, the net result on climate is detrimental.
Gay, Frederic   +15 more
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Variations in Plantation Sheet Rubber

Rubber Chemistry and Technology, 1932
Abstract An examination of the samples of sheet rubber collected at a recent Exhibition discloses a high degree of variation in the vulcanization properties of the rubber. Similar variations in the normal produce of first class estates are recorded.
R. O. Bishop, R. G. Fullerton
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Philippine rubber plantations

Economic Botany, 1953
Because of a local law, limiting land operated by any one source of private capital to 2,500 acres, rubber plantations have not been extensively developed in the Philippines, but there are at present seven plantations within this limitation in the islands.
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Integration of animals in rubber plantations

Agroforestry Systems, 1986
This paper describes a rather unique agroforestry approach of integrating animals (sheep, poultry and bees) in smallholder rubber plantations. The approach is based on the existence of surplus family labour, utilization of interspaces between the rows of rubber, availability of cheap and nutritious animal feed and presence of favourable microclimate ...
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Tensile Tests of Plantation Rubber

Rubber Chemistry and Technology, 1940
Abstract The investigation which has just been described can be summarized as follows: (1) A technique for the commercial testing of plantation rubber has been developed which is simple and precise, and by means of which it is possible to reproduce control tests, a feature which is indispensable if rubber is to be sold on a basis of quality ...
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Autonomous Navigation in Rubber Plantations

2010 Second International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing, 2010
Agriculture is the main revenue resource of many states of India. But due to new opportunities and higher pays the strength of the labour community is getting greatly reduced. Since the farming community is unable to sustain continuation of farming, the corporate world in now becoming the caretaker of the agricultural industry.
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