RRII has discovered that elephant dung can be effectively used as a potting medium for raising rubber root trainer plants.

Even as environmentalists have been crying foul over the severe pollution of water bodies in the city, including Hussainsagar lake, the aut...

Even as environmentalists have been crying foul over the severe pollution of water bodies in the city, including Hussainsagar lake, the aut...

Imagine a tyre with an effective inner lining of natural rubber compared to synthetic ones currently used, at a lesser cost.

Farmers in the North East are taking to natural rubber cultivation in a big way. The seven states of the region, with 14% of the total rubb...

The environment minister has argued that field trials are important for the extension of natural rubber cultivation to non-traditional area...

The Central government has permitted field trials of genetically modified rubber by the Rubber Research Institute of India.

The proposal is to increase the rubber planting subsidy from 20% of the total cost to nearly 30% of the total cost of planting.

The finance minister’s announcement of creating a special purpose fund for rubber with an initial kitty of Rs 19.41 crore in 2008-09 is exp...

A debate is raging about whether it is better to tap rubber trees in the traditional top-to-bottom style or the newly-mooted downside-up me...