Sentences with phrase «of rubber plantations»

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.

Mono - cropping exposes the soil surface allowing faster transpiration rate and reducing moisture, in the context of rubber plantations the rubber tappers suffered most since there is a significant reduction of moisture there is a dramatic decrease in sap supply of rubber trees.»

Shooshie Sulaiman is researching and creating a symbolic gesture of a rubber plantation through nine rubber trees.

It compounds pre-existing environmental problems in the western coast of Ghana linked with mining related pollution and expansion of rubber plantation.

Not exact matches

Therefore we convert rice field for rubber cultivation and other cash - crops, including horticultural plantations, develop capital intensive production units (in countries like India where the major strength is its labour power), thereby denying majority of people their right to work.

The main Indian immigration came during the nineteenth century, when indentured Indian laborers came to work on the rubber plantations, and now the population of Singapore is about six and a half percent Indian.

Instead of maple syrup, i poured in hill honey sourced from my neighbour's rubber plantation in Kerala; the bananas were grown on our farm and the brown sugar was replaced with powdered jaggery (unrefined cane sugar)... i added some orange rind and left out the cinnamon...

Unlike many plantation crops, like rubber and oil palm, cocoa can be grown with a diverse mixture of other plants.

With the aid of government agencies, large firms have been seizing swaths of land in forest areas that were traditionally under ancestral tenure and rapidly converting them to mono - crop rubber and oil palm plantations.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, where some 85 % of the world's palm oil is produced, more than 16 million hectares of land — rainforest, peat bogs and old rubber plantations — have been taken over by oil palm, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down.

Greenpeace also claims that Sud - Cameroun Hevea, a company owned mostly by Singapore's GMG, is developing rubber and palm oil plantations that threaten the Dja Faunal Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the largest and best protected rainforests in Africa.

For example, at one of their sites in Malaysia, a forest was being cleared to establish a rubber plantation, and progress of the clearing and the resulting land changes could be mapped quickly and updated routinely.

During the late 20th century their numbers were devastated by hunting and the loss of their forest habitat for logging and rubber plantations.

That's the job of the three leads in this deliciously humid love triangle, as rubber plantation manager Clark Gable is caught between randy hooker Jean Harlow (of course) and buttoned - up, married Mary Astor just as the rains begin to fall.

Red Dust (Warner Archive), the 1932 jungle melodrama starring Clark Gable as a rubber plantation foreman in East Asia and Jean Harlow as the street smart showgirl who takes a powder from «Say - gone» (as they call the future Vietnamese city of Saigon) and lands upriver in his primitive plantation manor, is as sexy, frank, and grown - up as pre-code cinema gets.

With this fund, investors can gain exposure to the some of the very conservative and strong Malaysian banks, rubber plantation companies and Genting, one of the top Malaysian companies with interests in casino operations among others.

Opt to visit the coastal town of Livingston by boat, go for a swim in a natural hot waterfall, take a sunrise kayak to visit groups of noisy howler monkeys, or take a horseback ride through the rubber plantations combined with a visit to the Shaman Tower.

Two hundred miles east of this giddying street, near the Cambodian border, lies the small island of Koh Kood, home to rainforest, coconut and rubber plantations, sleepy fishing villages, and fewer than 2,000 people.

I peered over the edge and sighed at the lush landscape of verdant highlands almost 800 feet below; a magnificent view of coconut palms, rubber trees and coffee plantations stretched for miles amidst majestic karsts.

The surrounding countryside is a tropical paradise of rice paddies, rubber plantations and coconut groves.

The lack of traffic combined with the flat terrain and and multitude of shady trails through the rubber and coconut plantations make Koh Mak a great place to explore by bicycle.

It has a fairly low lying terrain compared to the surrounding islands, with an interior full of rubber and coconut tree plantations.

If you're heading out of Phuket by car you may want to spend several days exploring the region, with its rubber plantations and bizarre landscapes.

Iquitos provided a gateway to the rainforest where rubber barons who owned rubber plantations could base themselves and orchestrate the harvest and distribution of natural rubber.

Located on the beautiful island of Koh Mak, Bamboo Hideaway is a cosy, boutique style resort built in an aging rubber tree plantation using natural materials.

on the back of a gentle, majestic Asian Elephant, through the jungle across palm and rubber plantations, and up Naga Mountain, offering panoramic vistas

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 formative experience for Fragoso was the six years he spent developing a rubber plantation in the state of Bahia.

While consumer awareness and sustainability programs for palm oil have come to the attention of the public, rubber plantations have been coasting under the radar.

Lead researcher Eleanor Warren - Thomas, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, explains that the tire industry consumes 70 percent of all natural rubber grown, and rising demand for tires is behind the plantation boom and subsequent threat to forests.

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.

Some of the last Sumatran elephants roam the forest of Sepintun — a habitat that is being trashed for oil palm, pulp and rubber plantations.

And Marc Ona, the 2009 recipient from Gabon, is facing the possibility of prison for publicly speaking out on the linkage between environmental destruction and governmental corruption, particularly in land giveaways for oil palm and rubber plantations.

State - sponsored land grabs and repression of activists have increased sharply in Cambodia in recent months, as the country's elite courts investor demand for plantations to grow rubber, sugar and other export crops.

In southeast Asia, a dramatic collapse in the price of palm oil (60 percent off its peak in March 2008) and rubber (down 54 percent from its high in July 2008) is causing a shake - out in the plantation sector, which has become one of the leading drivers of deforestation in the region.

This is what the report finds: The work was done by researchers from the National University of Singapore and looked at policies favoring rubber plantation over traditional slash - and - burn (swidden) agriculture.

The report says that despite the widespread perception of slash - and - burn being «a destructive system that leads to forest loss and degradation,» policies that support conversion to rubber plantations (which gets counted as reforestation, even though a plantation forest is hardly the same thing as natural forest) don't have a great environmental benefit.