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India attempts to revive its dwindling rubber industry

2023-06-08 23:14
Demand for rubber in India is soaring but local producers are giving up their money-losing plantations.
India attempts to revive its dwindling rubber industry

For more than 30 years Babu Joseph has been tending rubber trees on his small farm in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

Kerala used to be home to thousands of producers like him, who made a living extracting latex from small plantations of rubber trees, but over the last decade those numbers...