"I started tapping trees at age seven with my mother ... After nearly two decades of scraping by through hunting and acai harvesting, he returned to rubber tapping in 2017 to protect what he ...

Hainan, China - In a groundbreaking move to tackle labor shortages in the natural rubber industry, the Chinese Academy of ...

In a bid to tackle the chronic labour shortages plaguing its natural rubber industry, China has unveiled a mobile rubber-tapping robot, ...

This photo taken on March 4, 2025 shows a mobile rubber-tapping robot in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province. Developed jointly by the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural S ...