For more than 30 years Babu Joseph has been tending rubber trees on his small farm in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Kerala used to be home to thousands of producers like him, who made a ...

The National Coordination Council of Rubber Producers Societies has urged rubber farmers in Kerala to stop tapping during the ...

Kerala is a place to meander: Simply take a bus from Trivandrum or Cochin out to almost any village and spend a day wandering the dikes between the rice paddies and rubber trees, seeing how half ...

It was a bad time to inherit a rubber plantation ... "The global average production is 0.25 kilogram per year per tree. "In Kerala, we get 2.5 kilograms per year per tree. In Andhra and Telangana ...