mandate; to others it is indicative that Parliament is simply a rubber stamp, a mechanism without clout or meaning. But even …

This article assesses the economic, legal and environmental conditions that Thai rubber farmers face and evaluates … synthetic rubber. Pearson correlation tests found a strong positive relationship (r = 0.887) between the price of Brent crude … and Thai ribbed smoked sheets, and a moderate positive relationship between price changes in Brent and synthetic rubber (r …

, warning them that the introduced Para rubber tree was hostile to their swidden rice; and the International Rubber Regulation … Agreement was established, in an attempt to protect plantation rubber production by restricting smallholder production through …

The present paper traces the genesis of Natural Rubber Plantation based rehabilitation of the landless shifting … cultivators of Tripura. The paper makes a brief review of erstwhile efforts at resettlement and describes the economics of rubber …