COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Specialty tire maker Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. (GRI) recently held two events with natural rubber farming communities, both held under GRI's Green X Circle initiative, ...

BANGKOK - Thai rubber farmers took aim at the government on Wednesday, demanding it approve measures to help increasingly desperate growers in the world's top exporting nation for the commodity. Their ...

A study recently conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development has stated that natural rubber farming is possible in the eastern part of the country. As production of synthetic ...

Farmers can tap into the earning potential of rubber. Native to the rainforests of the Amazon in South America, these trees are generally found in low-altitude, wetlands, riparian zones, forest gaps ...

Rubber farmers in the South have a message they want to get across: they are not all rich and they and their families are at the mercy of crop prices. Like every other crop, rubber has its cycles of ...

An American farmer on a tractor: The words conjure up an image of an overall-clad figure riding through amber waves of grain, maybe in Nebraska. But it was not on the Great Plains that the ...

FIRESTONE, Liberia—As Ebola exploded here this year, a rubber farm embarked on a crash course on how to tame an epidemic that has killed thousands of people and derailed governments across West Africa ...