• Crop Management
• Processing

Crop Management

• Production of quality planting materials
• Nursery management
• Clones


• Climate and soil
• Land preparation and planting
• Intercropping


• Cover crops and ground cover management
• Mulching, shading and whitewashing
• Induction of branches
• Weed control
• Manuring / fertilizer application


• Soil and leaf sampling
• Nutritional disorders
• Harvesting
• Pests
• Diseases
• Parasitic and non-parasitic maladies
• Bee Keeping in rubber plantations

Induction of branches

It has been observed that to achieve a high rate of girth increase, the rubber plant should produce branches at a height of about 2.5 to 3.0 m from the ground. In high branching trees, girth increment has been found to be poor compared to low branching trees. Some plants show a tendency for high branching, particularly clones like RRIM 600 and GT 1. In such cases branching has to be induced by encouraging a few lateral buds to develop. Double blade ring cut device and the leaf cap method can be utilized for this.

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