ELAMGULAM, Kerala (Reuters) - Several rubber farmers have put away their tapping knives and switched to planting other crops, as ample global supplies and sinking benchmark prices of the tyre-making ...

Yokohama Rubber has begun practical testing of a technology that gauges air pressure from the sound made by tapping on a tire. The company announced that it has developed an experimental pressure ...

China has designed artificial intelligence (AI)-powered rubber-tapping robots in an attempt to tackle chronic labor shortages plaguing its natural rubber industry, state media reported Monday. Jointly ...

This photo taken on March 4, 2025 shows a mobile rubber-tapping robot in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province. Developed jointly by the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) and ...

The Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA) has voiced concern over the quality of domestically produced natural rubber, noting that it is lot rubber (low grade) which constitutes almost ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's natural rubber output in 2017/18 is likely to jump 15 percent to its highest in four years at 750,000 tonnes as a spike in benchmark prices prompts farmers to start tapping ...

At a ground in the middle of a 7,500-acre secondary forest surrounded by an old-growth forest in the northern Lao province of Luang Namtha close to the Chinese border, dozens of local rubber tappers ...

ELAMGULAM, India, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Several Indian rubber farmers have put away their tapping knives and switched to planting other crops, as ample global supplies and sinking benchmark prices of the ...