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 ...

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.

Glove makers association Margma notes that Malaysia supplies nearly half of the US's natural rubber and nitrile glove market.

Deforestation surged in Marajo when global demand for Amazonian rubber plummeted as countries like Malaysia began large-scale rubber tree plantations.

A palm tree plantation inside the Kinabatangan wildlife sanctuary. Malaysia and Indonesia supply 85 percent of the world’s palm oil.

Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah of Malaysia's Pahang has called for firm enforcement to prevent land encroachment in his state, ...

Malaysian palm oil and rubber smallholders on Wednesday filed a petition to the European Union to protest against a new law preventing imports into the bloc of commodities linked to deforestation ...

He said Malaysia is naturally a conducive rubber plantation country, and the trees grow very well in our country. “The improvement must come from better clones to produce better-yielding trees.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 (Bernama) -- A comprehensive and systematic approach to re-organise smallholder rubber farmers into a federation, coupled with replanting of higher-yielding rubber tree varieties, ...

By Mikhail Raj Abdullah KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Bernama) -- Malaysia must capitalise on its global leadership in glove production by manufacturing environmentally-friendly tyres and green rubber ...