Sentences with phrase «new rubber plantations»
In 1914, new rubber plantations in Asia and Africa supplanted Amazonian rubber.
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The plantation experiment set in motion by the British was intended to help make the best use of the colony of Malaya's (as Malaysia was known under British rule) timber resources and was also instructive in the development of rubber plantations that were spreading across the region to fuel the booming new automobile industry.
It features the premiere of a new film Fordlandia (2014), shot in an abandoned city and rubber plantation built in the Amazon in the 1920s by Henry Ford.
A new study from the University of East Anglia (UEA) predicts that between 10.5 and 21 million acres of plantations will be required to meet the projected need for rubber required by the tire industry by 2024.
A new $ 95 million sustainability bond has been announced to help finance a natural rubber plantation in Indonesia.