Latex collection in disposable plastic bags and the use of expanded plastic rainguards

Abstract

Tapping and collection now account for the major cost of natural rubber production. Modern methods of exploitation with higher yielding trees have resulted in longer flow times so that an increasingly high proportion of the crop is recovered as cuplump. Research in progress
aims at further extending the flow time. Cuplump is potentially a top grade rubber but can all too easily lose part of this potential by contamination. The possibility of collecting the whole of the crop in one top quality form is attractive but cannot easily be accomplished by traditional methods.