The total size of Indonesia's rubber plantation area has risen steadily over the past two decades. In 2002, the country's rubber plantations covered a total of 3.34 million hectares. By 2022 the total national rubber plantation size had grown to 3.56 million hectares, particularly because of the expansion of smallholder estates.
— This article describes how the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) (Willd. ex A. Juss.) (Müll. Arg., family–Euphorbiaceae) which grows wildly in the Amazon forests, came under global focus due to industrial …
— Transition from forest to rubber (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.) plantation has occurred in tropical China for decades. Rubber has been planted on 1 million ha to provide raw materials to the rubber …
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— In Jambi Province, Indonesia, from 1991 to 2018, the overall tree cover loss in areas adjacent to rubber plantations was positively correlated to plantation size, remoteness (travel time to cities), and distance to the nearest protected areas, indicating that larger, remotely located plantations likely expanded more into forests between 2000 ...
— Systems with more complexity tend to support more biodiversity – 'jungle rubber' in Indonesia has been shown to support forest-dependent and plant species, …
Indonesia contributed 26% to the world's rubber production while Thailand contributed 36% and the rest were contributed by other countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia, India, China and others. The area of rubber in Indonesia in 2018 was about 3.7 million hectares with the total production of 3.6 million tons.
— Rubber: Widely cultivated in Southeast Asia, especially Thailand and Indonesia. Sugarcane: Key producers are Brazil, India, and China. Palm Oil: Indonesia and Malaysia dominate global production. Plantation agriculture is prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions where the climate supports the growth of these crops.
— With more than 4 million hectares of forest loss for rubber since 1993 (at least 2 million hectares since 2000) and more than 1 million hectares of rubber plantations established in Key...
— US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond issued to finance sustainable natural rubber plantation - fighting deforestation and creating 16,000 fair-wage jobs. Concession areas form a buffer zone protecting one of the last places in Indonesia where elephants, tigers and orangutans co-exist.
In fact, in Southeast Asia, while during the late colonial era rubber had become the dominant plantation crop and remained so for several decades, by the late 1990s the cultivation of Elaeis guineensis or oil palm trees …
plantations and the rest comes from large private plantations. Rubber is a source of livelihood for 15 million rubber farmers in rural areas and a provider of employment for crumb rubber factory workers. In general, Indonesia's total plantation area and rubber production have experienced a steady increase over the past decade.
Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, caucho, or caoutchouc, [1] as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Cambodia are four of the leading rubber producers. [2] [3] [4] Pieces of natural vulcanized rubber at …
— Rubber manufacturer Michelin claims to have avoided millions of tons of carbon emissions and saved thousands of hectares of primary forest in a sustainable rubber plantation project in Indonesia.
Indonesia is the second largest natural rubber (NR) producer in the world, contributing 27% to global production. Other key global producers include Thailand and Vietnam (see …
Downloadable! South Sumatra Province is known as Indonesia's largest natural rubber-producing center. In the last few decades, South Sumatra has faced climate change issues marked by increased variability of maximum temperature, mean temperature, minimum temperature, and rainfall. On the other hand, smallholder rubber plantations are …
Indonesia contributed 26% to the world's rubber production while Thailand contributed 36% and the rest were contributed by other countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia, India, …
Like Thailand, Indonesia saw a decrease in natural rubber production between 2019 and 2020. In 2019, Indonesia produced roughly 3,200 tons of natural rubber. In 2020, this production dropped to about 3,000 tons of natural rubber. ... Some of this natural rubber remained in India, while some portions of the rubber production were exported to ...
— By analyzing survey data from questionnaires with smallholder rubber farmers in Jambi, Indonesia, a pattern emerged suggesting that larger, remotely located …
— Study area. The study area is the Chandanapalli sub-watershed, which is located in the midlands of Kerala, India (Fig. 1).It is the largest sub-watershed of the Achankovil river basin and has a total area of 66.24 km 2.The elevation of the basin ranges from 20 to 200 m above mean sea level (Dhanya & Renoy, 2015).Rubber is the major …
— As the growing demand for natural rubber transforms Southeast Asia's landscapes, scientists in India have warned against the unregulated expansion of rubber monocultures in seven northeastern states that together make up the second largest area of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) planted in the country. Tripura considered as the 'second …
— Driven by food and industrial demand, the production of global oil palm has more than doubled over the last two decades. Between 1997 and 2018, oil palm plantations expanded from 10 to 21 Million ...
— Given that the demand for rubber will probably grow, there is an opportunity to provide an incentive for rubber-tree plantations to be established in previously deforested areas, changing the ...
The Southeast Asian countries are well-known for their rubber plantations. Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia are leading producers of rubber. Initially, rubber plantation in India was dominated by ...
— Rubber plantations have a lower abundance of litter-feeding termites and fungus grower species and a higher richness of wood-feeding termites than forests. Similarly, Potapov et al. (2021) exposed the dominance of invasive earthworm species (Pontoscolex corethrurus) in a rubber plantation in Indonesia. This invasion associated …
— The tremendous expansion of monocrop rubber plantations in mainland Southeast Asian countries in the 2000s has resulted in significant adverse environmental impacts, such as deforestation, soil ...
— The history of the bond between Pirelli and Indonesia has been over a century in the making. It was in the early years of the twentieth century that the Milan-based company began purchasing hectares of land with rubber-tree plantations in South-East Asia. The company was certainly proud of these acquisitions, as we can see in […]
— Natural rubber is one of the four main global commodities produced from trees. Predominantly harvested by smallholders, the industry sustains an estimated 40 million people and generates more than 300 billion dollars annually. Experts say that adopting more sustainable practices and standards along the value chains will …
decrease in economic output and output diversity for Indonesia. Replanting high-quality rubber trees and improving planting and tapping practices have potential to increase …
— News release of Bridgestone：It is a detailed page of ：Bridgestone Strengthens Investment in Natural Rubber Plantations in Southeast Asia. ... Indonesia Establishment：2005 Area in total：about 17,900ha Number of Employees：about 4,200 （2） PT BRIDGESTONE KALIMANTAN PLANTATION.
— In a new report, "Complicit: An Investigation into Deforestation at Michelin's Royal Lestari Utama Project in Sumatra, Indonesia", Mighty Earth said that the "industrial deforestation" has been carried out over a 33-month period to January 2015 to make way for natural rubber plantations in Jambi.
— The geographic center of sugar cane cultivation shifted gradually across the world over a span of 3,000 years from India to Persia, along the Mediterranean to the islands near the coast of Africa and then the Americas, before shifting back across the globe to Indonesia. A whole new kind of agriculture was invented to produce sugar – the …
