Worth a chat? From tree sap to car tires etc. The species came from Amazon, now grown widely in the tropics, a real strategy issue in WWII. Grown in southern China also, and now the Cambodian situation appears newsworthy: Alarm over 'timber grab' from Cambodia's protected forests - BBC News Rubber commodity value really jumped a few years back, and the planted area followed. Now, prices are in the tank and some people wonder whether chasing a market (any market) is the right thing to do with extensive forest resources.
Rubber Plantations I should stop answering this entire class of questions. Ultimately by doing so, I do harm to Bisco et al. So, a new tack: Nope, that never happened.
A LOT of tropical forests have been cleared to chase the 2009-2010 rubber price run up.One can only hope that these efforts will benefit local folks, because these new 'as if' forests are something less then their priors.
