KUALA KANGSAR: The first rubber tree planted in Malaysia, estimated to be over 140 years old, is now said to be worth almost RM200,000.

Ex-Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers Association chief Denis Low says the government should allocate more agricultural land for rubber tree cultivation. There are only 11,000ha of rubber tree ...

Kelantan, Malaysia – When Sia Beng Hok goes to check his rubber and batai (Moluccan albizia) trees, he makes sure he has a rifle on the backseat of his four-wheel drive. His plantations – all ...

The rubber industry is Malaysia’s second most important commodity after palm oil as the country is the world’s sixth largest producer of natural rubber, with a production value of 640,000 ...

By Danni Haizal Danial Donald. KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 (Bernama) -- A comprehensive and systematic approach to re-organise smallholder rubber farmers into a federation, coupled with replanting of ...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Bernama) -- Malaysia must capitalise on its global leadership in glove production by manufacturing environmentally-friendly tyres and green rubber products to stay ahead in the ...

Deforestation surged in Marajo when global demand for Amazonian rubber plummeted as countries like Malaysia began large-scale rubber tree plantations. Today, however, rubber sustains Rodrigues’s ...

FILE PHOTO-A worker places fresh fruit bunches of oil palm tree into a wheelbarrow during harvest at a palm oil plantation in Kuala Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia April 26, 2022.