{"id":4505,"date":"2023-01-06T01:33:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:15:33","slug":"rubber-plantations-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rubber-plantations-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Plantations in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The report highlighted that culturing natural rubber in the last century has brought significant economic benefits for growers. But excessive rubber plantations are adversely affecting various wildlife and plant species<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Natural Rubber\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Natural rubber is a polymer made up of a chemical molecule called isoprene.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a native of the Amazon basin which was introduced to countries in the tropical belts of Asia and Africa in the late nineteenth century.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climatic conditions required for Rubber<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Rubber trees require <strong>moist and humid climates<\/strong> with heavy rainfall of more than 200 cm.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It grows well in equatorial climates and temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Rubber trees require <strong>well-drained, weathered soils.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Rubber Plantations in India\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>India is the world\u2019s largest producer and the third-largest user of natural rubber.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Rubber Growing Areas in India\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Traditional Areas:<\/strong> Primarily in Tamil Nadu\u2019s Kanyakumari District and Kerala.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Non-traditional regions:<\/strong> Coastal Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra\u2019s Konkan Region, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, the northeastern provinces, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, among other places.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is a Polymer?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Polymer is any of a class of natural or synthetic substances composed of very large molecules, called macromolecules, that are multiples of simpler chemical units called monomers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/rubber-plantations-in-tripura-affecting-monkeys-vegetation-suggests-paper-86942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Rubber plantations in Tripura affecting monkeys, vegetation, suggests paper<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural rubber, native of the Amazon basin is a polymer made up of a chemical molecule called isoprene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}