Collecting rubber from a tree in the Western Ghats in Kerala. Cutting into the bark, rubber is bled from the tree and collected into a bowl. Dried, th
Collecting rubber from a tree in the Western Ghats in Kerala. Cutting into the bark, rubber is bled from the tree and collected into a bowl. Dried, the substance is mixed with other agents and set into mats before being sent to factories. Rubber prices in Kerala are currently at an all-time high; farmers fetching several times the price that was ten years ago when the market fell and most rubber plantations were converted into tea.
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