rubber plantation
Tree-tapping agricultural estate
A rubber plantation is a large agricultural estate where rubber trees are cultivated for their latex, the milky sap tapped from the bark and processed into natural rubber.
Rubber plantations became major colonial enterprises in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries: The company owned rubber plantations across Malaysia.
- commodityFungible traded good
- cash cropProduce grown for sale
- latexMilky plant-derived polymer
- seedlingRecently sprouted young plant
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
land clearing · monoculture · colonialism · colonial legacy · nursery · vulcanization · tire industry · Hevea brasiliensis · carbon footprint · indigenous knowledge · agroforestry · grafting · harvesting · biodiversity loss · Southeast Asia · tropical forest · wet season · export
- rubberlatex, neoprene, polyurethane, polyisoprene, tire
- resource sitesmine, quarry, oil well, oil field, gas field
- Colonialcolonist, colony, settler, fort, mission
- plantationsMelrose, Monmouth, Longwood, slave quarters, great house
- tropical farmingtropical crops, coconut palms, coconut farming, sugarcane, banana farming
- farmlandfarms, farm, fields, field, barns
rubber plantationpetrochemical plant
Facility processing petroleum derivatives
rubber plantationprimary forest
Undisturbed natural woodland
old-growth forest · nature reserve · wilderness · wildlife sanctuary · native ecosystem
rubber plantationsubsistence farm
Self-sufficient agricultural plot
indigenous territory · food forest · community garden · conservation area · fallow land
rubber, plantation, rubbers, rubbery, rubberize, rubberized, rubberizing, plant, plants