Control of disease of the roots.
What is a rubber tree plantation.
A british explorer henry wickham was hired to steal mass amounts of seeds for the tree havea brasiliensis.
When forests grow they absorb the carbon a greenhouse gas whose emission is mainly responsible for climate.
The average temperature required for rubber plantations is 25 28 c with a maximum of 34 c.
The rainfall in the area for rubber plantation should be around 2000 mm annually.
And a large area of bark.
Rubber trees require bright sunlight for about 20000 hours 6 hours a day.
The atmospheric humidity should be around 80 with moderate wind speed.
This tree is what gives off the material to make rubber.
Recognizing this potential the british set out in hopes to set up rubber plantations in the colonies they owned.
Poorly designed or badly enforced policies to promote and incentivise tree plantations in an effort to fight climate change risk wasting public money by releasing more carbon than natural forests and destroying biodiversity found a recent study in nature sustainability.
Apart from eco friendly characteristic rubberwood s favourable for woodworking and timber properties because medium dense timber air dry density 560 650 kg m 3 suitable for a wide scope of applications.
It is very important to see if white root rot has attacked a tree because by the time you see that the tree is ill it is too late.
Rubber tree plantation has important impact on viet nam economy in recent years.
The tree may be attacked by white root rot fomes which makes the roots rot.
Wickham went to the amazon and in 1876 stole around 70 000 seeds.
They do less serious damage.
Types of polyisoprene that are used as natural rubbers are classified as elastomers.
However hevea brasiliensis is the most commercially cultivated rubber plant.
Rubber is used for many purposes which may include erasers to tyres tubes industrial products.
The rubber tree may also be attacked by insects.
Then the tree dies.
Cultivated on plantations in the tropics and subtropics especially in southeast asia and western africa it replaced the rubber plant in the early 20th century as the chief source of natural rubber it has soft wood.
It can be easily steam bent or stained to resemble any other timber depending on consumer demand.
Rubber tree hevea brasiliensis south american tropical tree of the spurge family euphorbiaceae.
Yet we paid the owners of the michelin plantations 600 for each rubber tree we damaged while the family of a slain vietnamese child got no more than 120 in payout for a life the aftermath of a november 27 1965 battle at the michelin rubber plantation that claimed more than 100 lives.