Natural rubber growers are up in arms over the reported move to permit the tyre industry to import rubber cup lumps. Cup lumps are oxidised rubber, mostly contaminated with dirt and other extraneous ...

The General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU), has appealed to the government to take immediate steps to ban the export of cup lump [natural rubber] materials from the country in other to save the ...

The Natural Rubber (NR) plantation industry, which is passing through a period of crisis on account of the continuing slump in price, may get another jolt if the Union government gives in to the ...

ABIDJAN, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Early in the morning, Yobouet Gnagne Roland, chairman of a rubber cooperative in Cote d'Ivoire, rushed to deliver cup lumps that were freshly harvested to a Chinese rubber ...

Have you ever heard of a super trader? That person may be the reason rubber prices are so high. There is a little-known phenomenon in the rubber-growing belt of Southeast Asia, whereby a few ...

Hundreds of rubber farmers and traders took to the streets of Sekondi in a spirited protest on Tuesday, strongly opposing government discussions to restrict or ban exports of raw rubber, warning that ...

KOCHI: Can a common quality standard be prescribed for something that is unprocessed, contaminated with dirt, soot and other foreign materials? Can a quality standard be defined for a material that is ...