Myanmar’s rubber farms are the backbone of Southeast Asia’s "White Gold" industry, producing some of the highest quality rubber in the world. The process starts with tapping rubber trees for their ...

The figures show chocolate price inflation is increasing, rising from 9.8 per cent last Easter compared to Easter 2023 to ...

There are many factors that contribute to how long it takes for fruit trees to start producing. Here's what to expect ...

Provided sustainable practices are used, namely the careful choice over what trees get chopped down, logging can have a ...

Bloomberg's Big Take podcast looks at an investigation into allegations of sexual coercion at plantations run by Socfin, a rubber company supplying top tiremakers.

Levi Geyer, owner of Fancy Twig Farm in Parnell, southwest of Iowa City, is one of a small handful of producers in the ...

"There are those folks who will say you should never harvest a tree, and certainly not for toilet paper that we're going to wipe with and throw down the toilet," Billig said. But in reality ...

"There are those folks who will say you should never harvest a tree, and certainly not for toilet paper that we're going to wipe with and throw down the toilet," Billig said. But in reality, ...

Where do Michelin tyres come from? From the sap of the Pará rubber tree – also known as Hevea brasiliensis, sharing a tree or rubber plant – which grow over 40 metres tall and can be tapped ...

1957 – the BBC aired a segment on its news program showing footage of Swiss farmers harvesting spaghetti from trees. The segment was presented as a serious news story, and many people believed ...

Manna harvesting (the practice of cutting the bark of Fraxinus ornus trees to collect their sap), used to be a common practice throughout the Mediterranean. But in the past 80 years, urbanisation ...