Almost 1,800 rubber farmers and their households, mostly children, in Côte d’Ivoire will benefit from a healthcare programme launched by the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR), which has tied up in a three-year partnership with Berlin-based social enterprise Elucid. This will benefit…
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Philippine rubber farmers receive agri aid to boost output
In the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, four agrarian reform beneficiary organisations (ARBOs) involved in rubber tree farming got bags and sacks of fertilizers and pesticides worth Php 2.8 million to help them improve their production. ARBOs include the Timbabauan Agrarian…
Rubber farmers, production in Thailand worst hit by flooding
Rubber production in Southern Thailand is experiencing the worst impact they have had in 10 years due to flooding in the area, said Uthai Sonlucksub, president of the Natural Rubber Council of Thailand. Uthai said that the rubber farmers in…