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For Wanida, out tapping her trees at 3:00 am with her faithful dogs yapping at her heels, rubber is in her blood. Passed down from her grandfather to her father, the plantation might be taking a ...
“If the arborist says it looks good to tap we’ll go ahead,” Atkinson said. Trained volunteers will go out to tap the tree and it’s up to the homeowner to store the sap – finding room to store 20 to 30 ...
In this photo taken on Jan 17, 2023, rubber tapper Wanida Hityim, 41, makes an incision on a rubber tree as she collects latex in the early hours of the morning at her plantation in Surat Thani.
Thailand's December rubber production cut nearly 30% by floods Heavy monsoon rains disrupt tree tapping in world's largest latex-producing nation ...
The customer application, developed by automated rubber-tapping specialist CIHEVEA, uses the low-power networking to revolutionize the automation of extracting latex from rubber trees.
With each incision made carefully to avoid harming the trunk, the native Amazonian tree begins to drip its latex into a container placed underneath. As it fills, Renato moves on to the next tree ...
The rubber-tapping robot can harvest 100 to 120 trees per hour, powered by lithium batteries that provide over 8 hours of continuous operation. Notably, its 20-second rapid battery swap capability ...
A contestant taps a mock rubber tree during the final round of a rubber tapping contest as part of a national vocational skills competition for agricultural practitioners, in Haikou, south China's ...
India's rubber production peaked in 2013 at 913,700 tonnes, according to figures from the country's Rubber Board. Production then fell dramatically to 562,000 tonnes in 2016.
The 55-year-old Joseph, who has tapped rubber trees for three decades, said he had lost 200,000 rupees this year and that he would not resume tapping unless rubber prices rose to 150 rupees per kg.
For Wanida, out tapping her trees at 3:00 am with her faithful dogs yapping at her heels, rubber is in her blood. Passed down from her grandfather to her father, the plantation might be taking a ...