Cotabato Governor Emmylou Talino-Mendoza says her order is meant to protect the province's more than a P1-billion rubber industry from the destructive tree fungal disease GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines – ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Basilan provincial government has expressed alarm over the spread of a disease affecting rubber trees in the province. Gov. Jim Hataman Salliman said up to 800 hectares of ...

The Pestalotiopsis attack affects around 90% of the rubber trees in Basilan’s nine municipalities and two cities BASILAN, Philippines – The provincial government on Monday, January 23, declared the ...

Farmers can tap into the earning potential of rubber. Native to the rainforests of the Amazon in South America, these trees are generally found in low-altitude, wetlands, riparian zones, forest gaps ...