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Hmmmmmmmm, interesting

adexmuhyi:
Can somebody plz xplain to me what we are doin here and how on earth this got to fp

It is an opportunity for you to reduce your high level of ignorance... did u stumble in here?

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Uh...I know how rubber is tapped.

Op u reminded me of those days when man dey hustle.

kindnyce:
WOW

WE REALLY NEED TO DEVELOP THAT SECTOR AND ALLOW THIS OIL OF A THING REST

NAIJA SHALL RISE AGAIN

it's a very very smelly business. Especially when gathering the solidified bits from the small tapping cups. 99% of people on this forum won't do it. Granddad's expansive rubber plantations have since been turned into farmland. Because there was a lull in demand for a period due to synthetic plastic. As an anecdote, the wars Britain fought in Southern 9ja in the 1890s, gaining control over rubber trade was a big factor. To supply budding automobile and other industries in Europe then. Including war against Benin Kingdom.

SenorMcSlyl:
It is an opportunity for you to reduce your high level of ignorance... did u stumble in here?

are there any procedures in making this a reality or we are jst here to view pixs

This reminds me of my primary school days. There is a rubber plantation opposite my school gate. Those of you who have been to Mayflower school ikenne will understand this.

@op: thanks for bringing back the memories.

LajaLaba:
Where do we go wrong

We became a nation where people think glamour is the only avenue to wealth instead of hard work.

VickyRotex:
Nigeria ain't poor, we don't just know how to utilize our resources. Omashe ooo

we know how to utilize our resources but greed and ultimately corruption has gotten the better of us.

our problem is poor governance

Palm wine tapping..

I remember this very well as we have a rubber plantation in town ikenne ogun state when I was small we make our football with that rubber and throw away their plastic and pick firewood for cooking God have mercy on me

]This reminds me of my primary school days. There is a rubber plantation opposite my school gate. Those of you who have been to Mayflower school ikenne will understand this.

@op: thanks for bringing back the memories


I feel you brother that must be ita oyila

Peezzy:
[size=25pt]Durex condom +[/size]

that's all you could read abi

Y durex con follow na

Dat thing took over almost an acre of my uncultivated land.........na december e go end sha

God is wonderful.

You had to shove condom in our faces, eh?

Peezzy:
[size=25pt]Durex condom +[/size]

u like it, right? Huh.

dont8:
[size=14pt]Nice, brings some nostalgia back.

Reminds me of early 90's when I used to follow grandma to her Cocoa plantation and on the way to farm I witnessed first hand how they tap the rubber. After cutting the tree for fluid, it can takes days for the droplet to filled-up the bowl placed on the opening.[/size]

location?

fctguy:
Rubber is grown in Edo, Delta, Ondo, ogun,, Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Rivers, Ebonyi and Bayelsa States where the amount of rainfall is about 1800 mm to 2000 mm per annum

https://s6.postimg.org/jlgdbywwh/rubber_tapper.jpg

Natural rubber performs three main functions in our national economy; these are the provision of raw materials for the agro- based industries, it provides foreign exchange earning and places Nigeria in the world map as a net exporter of rubber and lastly, it offers employment to a sizeable segment of the Nigerian farming rural population.

https://s6.postimg.org/s4zr9q58x/Rubber_plantation_5.jpg

Natural rubber takes five to seven years before the commencement of tapping.
Tapping is defined as the controlled wounding of a matured rubber tree with the aim of extracting from it the economic fluid called latex while at the same time ensuring that the economic life of the tree is preserved.16 to 25 years( age of plantation) is considered economical and if not rehabilitated would lead to decline in yield hence reduction in income.

https://s6.postimg.org/uau2488pd/rubber_products.jpg
It is unfortunate that this art of rubber tapping has become obsolete and relegated to oblivion because Nigeria embraced the sudden riches of the black gold. We must go back to our roots of cultivating the soil.

it is normally tapped in d early hours of d day I.e as early as 5-6am as the latext flows more due to d weather,normally d container used for tapping must b painted black to avoid lost of heat and water evaporating from d latext,Amonia(surfactant)is usually added during tapping to avoid coagulation after which d latext is now coagulated and processed into pale creep,ribbed smoked sheet(RSS) or crumped rubber which are used in d production of. Varios item such as condom(latext) tyre(crumped rubber or RSS depending on d grade),elastic bands,eraser,water hose etc.

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Nigeria will gain if they invest in Rubber n plastic companies

dokyOloye:
location?

[size=14pt]Ondo State.[/size]

My dad used to own d plantation.so stressful.The workers go round evry morning to collect d latex aftr scraping.sometimes rain carries them away but aftr collecting d lump,u smile to bank.Ferdinand group of company frm urualla.gud old days.

dont8:
[size=14pt]Nice, brings some nostalgia back.

Reminds me of early 90's when I used to follow grandma to her Cocoa plantation and on the way to farm I witnessed first hand how they tap the rubber. After cutting the tree for fluid, it can takes days for the droplet to filled-up the bowl placed on the opening.[/size]

I have never seen how rubber is tapped. I don't know anything about the process sef.