BANGKOK, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet has approved a 20-year plan to slash rubber plantations by 21% nationwide and increase the value of rubber exports by more than threefold, a government ...

BANGKOK—Southern Thailand is on alert over the possibility of pestalotiopsis disease (fungal disease) in natural rubber plantations, according to the International Rubber Consortium. To date, the ...

Thailand is the world's largest producer of natural rubber, the vast majority of it from small-scale farmers - Copyright AFP Jack TAYLOR Thailand is the world's ...

Thai latex makes everything from tyres and condoms to baby pacifiers and surgical gloves, the fruit of the rubber trees cultivated across endless acres of the country. But the rubber trade is at a ...

TOKYO — Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (YRC) has agreed to provide economic support for Thai natural rubber farmers and to improve traceability to ensure transparency and soundness of the supply chain.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A key rubber tree-growing area in Thailand has been hit by an outbreak of a fungal disease, which could halve the area's output, the country's rubber authority said on Monday.

Swaying rows of neatly planted rubber trees have become the latest political battleground in Thailand, as thousands of farmers barricade roads and railways for a second week to demand that the ...

BANGKOK, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Thailand faced pressure on Friday to end a two-week protest by rubber farmers after violent overnight clashes between riot police and a group of protesters who hurled rocks ...

The source tree for natural rubber, Hevea brasiliensis, is frequently affected by a bark necrosis syndrome, which has been observed since the 1980s. The disease leads to sharp falls in latex ...

They work in the pre-dawn gloom tapping trees for the "white gold" that has made their country the world's top rubber producer -- but as prices plunge due to the US-China trade war, Thai farmers are ...