The rubber growers in Kerala were affected by heavy rains and floods last year.

The rubber price touched Rs 140 per kg on Wendesday, 12 per cent up from the beginning of the month.

While growers are unable to sell, sluggish sales have hit tyre makers. It is the peak harvest season of rubber and growers have been unable...

Indian rubber growers are getting ready to raise tapping activity after a disastrous year which saw prices plunge to a nineyear low.

The most important of the measures was the allocation of Rs 500 crore to help the small growers in the rubber sector.

The situation has been aggravated by the slowdown in the tyre industry, which is yet to see a pickup in demand for truck and bus tyres.

The government had announced a Rs 300-crore subsidy scheme for the growers over a month ago when the natural rubber price was at Rs 129 a k...

Rubber production has fallen in India as many planters stopped tapping the trees for the latex following a steep drop in its price in the p...

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi assured rubber growers in Kerala, hit by steep fall in prices, that he would take up their issue with ...

The All India Tyre Dealers' Federation (AITDF) is pleading with the ministry of road transport to take up the cause of road transporters wh...

The Kerala State Cooperative Rubber Marketing Federation (Rubbermark) on Tuesday called for increasing the import duty of rubber from the c...

Natural rubber prices, which fell to the lowest in the last four years, seem to be on a rebound following the government decision to hike t...

After steep drop in raw material prices, none of the leading domestic tyre manufacturers rolled back the tyre prices.

With the auto industry showing signs of recovery, the demand for rubber by tyre companies has increased.

Despite the decision by the government to ban futures trading in natural rubber, spot prices have bounced back to a level of Rs 120 per kg ...

Cherupuzha, a mountainside hamlet in north Kerala, is unlikely to find a mention in any buzz on capital markets and commodity futures.

In a year of success stories in natural rubber, there has been at least one setback for our growers. Thailand has overtaken India in the pr...