Collecting sap to make rubber showing sap dripping from a rubber tree into a drip pot in the foothills of Kerala, Southern India


The Tapping of rubber process is by cutting (with a special flat knife )a diagonal grove in the bark that allows the rubber sap to drip along the groove to a container to collect it . This is collected on a daily basis.


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Location: Rubber plantation in Idukku District Kerala Southern India
Photo credit: © Wendy Johnson / Alamy / Afripics
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