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Rain gutter: An effective means of improving rubber production

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Proceedings of Seminar on Low Intensity Tapping Systems(LITS) 10 August 1998, Training Complex, Sungei Buloh. pp.140-158Summary: This paper identifies the problems of low rubber production and offers solutions to overcome these problems. Data from estates and smallholdings show taht rain interferes with tapping, resulting in loss in tapping days and wash-out of late drips. These are the main causes of low yields from rubber planting. The use of a simple device called Rain Gutter has been shown to minimise these problems. The other factor is human problem, which can only be overcome by the management. But more importantly, in large commercial adoption, Rain Gutter has increased yield considerably by 400 to 700 kg/hectare/year and this had in turn led to higher income for the growers. Used on a national basis it has great implications on enhancing Malaysias total production of NR by 400,000 to 700,000 tonnes/year. Rain Gutter is meant for all tapping systems and in principle one task per tapper should be fitted to ensure that on any given rain day one task would be still tappable. For the long flow system Rain Gutter is essential because of its high yield per tapper and its long late drip.
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This paper identifies the problems of low rubber production and offers solutions to overcome these problems. Data from estates and smallholdings show taht rain interferes with tapping, resulting in loss in tapping days and wash-out of late drips. These are the main causes of low yields from rubber planting. The use of a simple device called Rain Gutter has been shown to minimise these problems. The other factor is human problem, which can only be overcome by the management. But more importantly, in large commercial adoption, Rain Gutter has increased yield considerably by 400 to 700 kg/hectare/year and this had in turn led to higher income for the growers. Used on a national basis it has great implications on enhancing Malaysias total production of NR by 400,000 to 700,000 tonnes/year. Rain Gutter is meant for all tapping systems and in principle one task per tapper should be fitted to ensure that on any given rain day one task would be still tappable. For the long flow system Rain Gutter is essential because of its high yield per tapper and its long late drip.

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