ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — Basilan has been placed under a state of calamity due to a disease affecting rubber tree plantations in the province. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan approved a resolution ...

FOR more than twenty years strong arguments have been advanced in favor of planting rubber in the Philippines. Yet of more than 4,000,000 acres of rubber planted during that time, less than 3,000 ...

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 – ...

BUTUAN CITY (PIA) – To address the emerging leaf fall disease on rubber trees, also known as Pestalotiopsis, the Department of Agriculture (DA) Caraga, together with the Philippine Rubber Research ...

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 ...

KIDAPAWAN CITY, Cotabato, Philippines — Thousands of rubber tree planters in Cotabato province are now experiencing losses following the “wintering season” that is common every first quarter of the ...