RUBBER IN MALAYSIA

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RUBBER IN MALAYSIA
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WHAT IS RUBBER?

• It is white in colour and it does not smell.
• Rubber is made from the milky-white juice of
  rubber tree.
• The milky-white juice is called latex.
• The original home of the rubber tree was at the
  forests of the Amazon Basin, Brazil in South
  America.

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RUBBER IN MALAYSIA

• Rubber became Malayas most important product
  and export.
• Malaysia still produces most natural rubber in
  the world.

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THE METHOD OF PRODUCING RUBBER

• Tapping means cutting the bark of rubber tree
  with a special knife to collect the latex.

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Some latex is sent to the factories

• At the factory acid is mixed with the rubber to
  make it thick.
• This process is called coagulation.
• Then the latex is divided into slabs of rubber
  about 40 mm thick

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THE MODERN METHOD (More rubber is being produced
in this way)
THE TRADITIONAL METHOD (Still widely used)
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THE MODERN METHOD (More rubber is being produced
in this way
THE TRADITIONAL METHOD (Still widely used)
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4A BAGS OF HEAVEACRUMB RUBBER

• Slabs of latex are minced or chopped into small
  pieces or crumbs.
• This rubber is called heveacrumb.
• These small pieces dry in just a few hours.
• They are then packed into plastic bags.
• These bags are lighter and cleaner than the bales
  of sheet rubber.
• They are given a special mark RSM.
• This means that the rubber is of a high quality.

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4B - BALES READY FOR EXPORT

• The slabs of rubber are rolled into thin sheets
  and dried in a smokehouse for about four days.
• Then the sheets are packed into bales or bundles.
• They are ready to go to the factories that make
  rubber goods or to the ports to be exported.

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THE RUBBER GROWING AREAS OF WEST MALAYSIA

• Large companies planted rubber on large farms
  called plantations or estates.
• Ordinary farmers or smallholders also began to
  plant rubber as a cash.
• A cash crop is a crop that can be exchanged for
  money.
• Today smallholders produced 60 percent of
  Malaysias rubber.
• Most of the countrys rubber still comes from the
  western part of West Malaysia.

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CIKGU HAJAH NIKMAH HAJI KAMIS 2008
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