er farming series 25

the rubber tree

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n -si les h e been blished in is rie designed r a 0 ear in rm level agricu on and in u

hey ay b as a r idual docu en

1. he plant: th I ing a '

the ot 2. he plant: the e

' e buds; the le es

The plant: the flower The ii: how e is made up

5. he soil: how con e e ii The ii: how p ve e soil

7. p ing al husband eding and ca of animals

9. al husband :am al disea s· '

how animals p duce

y 11. 12. b ing 1 ic ns 1 ing animal r 15. e als 16. and be 17. 18. ananas 19. a ga ening 20. p!and rice 21. et paddy or p rice 22. 23. 0 e 24. he oil pal 2 The rubber e 26. The odern farm business

Published arrangement with the lnstitut africain pour developpement economique social

IB.P. 8008, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

FOOD D THE Rome 1977

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ISBN 92-5-100156-1

·©French edition, lnstitut africain pour le developpement economique et social (INADES) 1969

©_ English edition, FAQ 1977

author of this English version r. .J. enderson, former Chief of the F Editorial Branch.

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a Iii Iii a G m III Iii a a a p o Iii Iii l!I o m a 3

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Germinating seeds in the germinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Putting the germinated seeds in the nursery . . . . . . . . 8 Looking after the nursery , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Grafting young plants ............. , . , , . . . . . . . . 11

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Preparing the soil .............. , . , , . . . . . . . . . . 17 Putting the young plants in the plantation . . . . . . . . . 19

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Before tapping ......... , , .......... , . . . . . . . . 20 After tapping , , ....... , . , ....... , . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Protection against disease and insects . : .. , ....... .

• Tapping m 111 e m m ii El e m llil e Ill m m Iii l!!I Ill El Ill Ill m Ill Iii !ill m Ill • m Ill Ill e Ill El Ill Ill 25

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Starting the tapping Harvesting the latex . , , ...................... . Harvesting latex at the right time ............ .

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The I that is used:

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bicycles, motorcars and airplanes;

• ubber in great

more and more

But it

They can be grown everywhere.

They need:

• a hi temperature; • plenty of water;

d;

•--moist air, they can withstand ad season.

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Liberia

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Cameroon

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hana

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These production figures (for 19 ) are from the F AO Production Yearbook

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must:

• .prepare the seedlings

• make a good plantati

look after the plantation;

harvest the latex wel I.

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It a I me get~~~·~ Ii to in the plantation,

It takes years to get seedlings putting in the plantation.

To raise seedlings for the plantation, you must:

ings

i

To do this, you have to:

make the germinator;

choose the seeds;

put the seeds in the germinator.

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a

1 metre can get underneath it

the seeds germ1

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10 centimetres.

• Push

must I if each seed is shi

is not, because it

a

and bright. it in,

germinate.

the , th the

I

nded side the seed uppermost.

Rounded side of seed

Put the seeds cl together, side by side, and water them.

make a plantation of 1 hectare, with trees, you must put 1 700 seeds to germinate. So you must have a germinator 1 metres long and 1 metre wide.

week later the seed has germinated, and the rootlet is about 2 centimetres long.

This is the time to take the seeds out of the germinator and put them in the nursery.

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Choose a spot that

Grub up ail trees.

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few days before planting germinated seeds remove I vegetable refuse. The soil must be tilled hand deeply, to at least centimetres, with a hoe. Then the soil must be led and harrowed to break up clods.

This is how the nursery is made ready the germinated seeds.

The germinated seeds are planted in rows. In each row leave centimetres between seeds. Leave 30 centimetres between the rows. Plant the seedlings (germinated seeds) in alternate spaci as shown in the drawing on page 9. Make four rows in each nursery bed. Leave 60 centimetres between the nursery beds. After every four beds, leave a space of 1 metres.

Thus 1 hectare will contain 58 000 seedlings.

make a plantation of 1 hectare, you have to plant 1 500 germinated seeds; that means two nursery beds, each 70 metres long.

When transplanting the seedlings, press the soil well down round the tap-root and the rootlets, without damaging them.

Water the seedlings as soon as you have transplanted them.

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• The first time 0 2 months after transplanti give 150 kilogrammes ammonium ph to each hectare and 75 kilogrammes of potassium chloride

each hectare. Th is means that a you need 1 kilogram and kilogram

• The second time, 5 months

square metres ammoniu phosphate

potassium chloride.

transplanting, give the amounts.

But must get advice technical because different soils have different needs.

Ten months after transplanting to the nursery, take out the ng plants that have not grown wel I.

When the young plants are between 12 and 15 months old, during the short rainy season,

must be done.

Grafting is a difficult job. You must pay great attention to it.

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a little piece a taken a tree

ng plant in the nu It II

take a piece a branch

is the plant p!antati

from a tree that gives plenty latex; this is called the The scion will provide the stem the plant that is to be put into plantation.

graft use a .,,.,..,,.,..T

with a very sharp blade.

Grafting

·Blade

do the grafting,. you have to:

• prepare the young plant from the nursery (the stock); take the scion from a tree of good qua I ity;

• place the scion in the stock.

Afterwards look to see if the graft has succeeded.

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3.5 centi it can be grafted.

centimetres above the ground,

)

make two cuts in the stock about 4 5 centimetres I and 2 centimetres apart. Then make one cut at the bottom to join the other cuts at the lower end.

All these cuts are made in the bark only. must into the UUllr'lnn

You will see, if you cut a stem right across, that • outside is the bark;

inside is the hard wood.

The cuts must be made

Wood

so that the bark can be peeled back. Make the cuts on 20 plants, one after the other.

You will see a white liquid flowing out. This is the latex.

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same thickness as They called

These branches for grafting leaves; the leaves have been taken 10 days before cutting the branches. As soon as the selection centre has given you the grafting wood, the grafts must be done at once, during the next hours.

In the first-year cou,rse we learned that on the stem there are buds below the leaves. If you look closely just below a leaf, you will see that there is a

This bud is called an

Bud

To get a scion, take an eye with a little piece of the bark round it.

Take a branch of grafting wood in order to remove an eye from it. Round this eye make two cuts 5 or 6 centimetres long and 1 or 2 centimetres apart. You will see the latex flow out.

Two cuts

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b

Grafting knife

Bud or eye

a piece grafting it.

If at the of this II see that:

• in the middle there is wood; • round the outside is bark.

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• in

Strip of bark

the piece removed the grafting Make two cuts, one on each side the eye, so as to mark off scion.

the piece of bark with the eye.

Peeling off the scion

Now have the scion by itserf.

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The scion removed

Strip of bark

Put back the strip of bark over the scion and bind it to trunk with a band centimetres wide and 60 centimetres long. The graft is n ished.

To plant 1 hectare, 1 plants must be grafted.

ree weeks after making the graft, take away the band and cut the strip of bark at the top of the vertical cuts. The graft has been successfu I if the scion is well joined to the stock, and if the graft is green when you scratch it a little. There should be at least 85% of successes.

The young plants are now left in the nursery until the next rainy season. _ Then the grafted plants will be put into final position in the plantation.

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make a good plantation,

• prepare the soil well;

do the planting well.

must:

Choose deep soil that is never flooded. Then the tap-root of the rubber

can go down well into the soil.

Once the site is chosen, you have to:

•

• clear the ground; stake out the rows;

• make terraces to control erosion .

Remove the trees by grubbing them. Take the earth away round the base of each tree and cut the roots. Then the tree will fall, pulling out its stump.

At the beginning of the dry s·eason, do any burning that is necessary.

• Staking the rows

This means putting stakes where the trees are to be planted. If the ground slopes, the stakes must be placed along the contour lines. Put the stakes 2 metres apart in each row. Make the rows 8 metres apart. This will give 625 plants on 1 hectare.

After this, · you must put the grubbed-out trees between the rows.

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al r lines erosion.

ig a trench 0.35 metre deep and 0.35 metre wide. ke terrace slope

a I ittle agai the sl The stake is 1 metres from the trench.

Terrace made here Stake

Top layer

Second layer

Earth taken away

Everything must be finished the beginning of the rainy season before planting.

At the beginning of the rainy season, sow cover crop plants between the terrace~. In forested country use Tithonia diversifolia, in savanna, plant Pueraria.

The site is then ready for the plantation.

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i

Id centi centimetres long and centimetres

The bottom I must be separate the top I.

Refili the hole 1 days planting, putting the bottom soil down below.

Bottom soil

out the young plants in the nursery by cutting the tap-root at a depth of

Then m as follows:

Top soil

centimetres.

• cut the stem 5 centimetres above the graft; • cut the tap-root 60 centimetres from the base the stem;

trim all side roots back to the tap-root.

Then make a hole with a dibber. Push the tap-root into the soil at the bottom the hole, and pack the soil well all round the tap-root. The plant must stand upright.

Then fill up the hole, putting back a little soil and pressing it down well. You must put only a little soil at a time and press it we! I down as you go on.

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a good a I planter ust:,

• look after plantati before tapping; • look after the plantation after tapping; • protect the rubber trees against diseases insects.

r

To look after the plantation before tapping, you must:

•

• take good care of the trees; • make clearings,

that is, remove the less good trees, and those that have not grown wel I;

• look after the soil.

The trees must be: disbudded;

• replaced where missing; • pruned.

Disbudding means to remove buds that have grown. When the scion grows, it forms a stem;

on this stem shoots appear. Al I the shoots up to a height of 3 metres from the ground must be removed. There will then be a fine trunk with branches only above 3 metres that wi 11 form the crown of the tree. (The crown is al I the branches that grow from the trunk.)

Replacing missing trees During the first year after planting,

trees that have not grown must be replaced.

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a formi a

at a height 3 metres. In that case, the stem at

that a branches crown is too dense,

is height, II form.

or if one part has more branches than another, it must be pruned 3 or 4 years after planting .

some trees II die, and some will be ill, extra trees have been planted.

When tapping begins (5 yea after planting), there must be trees to the hectare; the trees should be 50 centimetres in circumference at a height of 1 metre from the ground.

So from the second year after planting, some trees have to be removed. Remove about 30 trees every year during the second, third, fourth and fifth -years.

in choosing what trees to remove, take account of the following: • disease: diseased trees are the first to removed; • growth: take out a!I those that have grown badly; • close neighbours: removal of trees should leave a regular

plantation.

The rubber trees are planted in rows; between the rows trees are ground cover plants. So you must look after the rows, and look after the ground between the rows.

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• In

If the. seas•n is d 0

the number cultivations be reduced.

also be usedo Weed killers making an ication 3 months.

ground to a height or

ust be cut 3 centimetres.

ti

One cutting must be done before the d season; the cut stems and leaves are used to mulch

must remove (a herbaceous pl and very long roots),

as lmperata , long,

You can pull up the lmperata hand

ight

and then dig up the underground roots with a

If the plantation is well looked after before tapping, it wi 11 have ne trees when the time tapping comes. But you must also take care of the plantati after tapping begins.

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•

•

r

u

r about 12 yea there Id be about the hectare. (There were when tapping began.)

Trees must be • one year after tapping begins; • th rs tapping begi • and in the fth year,

so as have trees to the hectare .

this time the rubber ii and covers the soil well, so that few plan beneath it. All the same, the soil must be kept clear at the base of the trees.

The cover plants between the must be cut once a year.

The terraces must be kept up, so that they do not crumble away. looking after the plantati well,

will get fine trees. But you must not let them be attacked by diseases.

•

i

It destroys the makes the rubber tree may also ·be

I damage .

The tree may be attacked ite which makes the roots rot. Then the tree dies.

It is·very important to see if white root rot has attacked a tree, because, by the time you see that the tree is ill, it is too late.

Control of white root rot is carried out in stages: • F disease

During the first five years after planting, twice a year, you must get freshly cut grass and put it close up against base of each tree.

fortnight later, look to see if there are little white threads on the trees underneath the dry grass.

If you see little white threads, the tree is ill, it has white root So you must treat it.

• Second, treatment disease Dig a hole to uncover the roots of the tree,

without injuring them. The hole should be 40 to 50 centimetres deep. the roots have been attacked, the tree must be cut down and the roots taken out.

If the roots have not been attacked, and there are only white threads on them, you put a special product on the tap-root and the beginnings of the side roots. This product is called quintozene.

• Control insects The most dangerous insects are mites and crickets. The treatment for insects is to apply lindane.

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Tappi means · to make a cut in the bark ru

harvest the

Tapping is difficult to do well. must take care do it.

For a good tapping 0

you must:

make a good cut;

• harvest the latex wel I;

harvest the latex at the right time.

Before we see how to ma the tapping, let us look back at what we learned in the course on plant stems.

tree

let us see how the trunk of the rubber tree is made.

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• • •

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cambium the

E

I I

Bark

Cambium

Wood

by producing and bark. must not damage it

you want the tree to normally.

EE

If look at bber a m1 wi 11 see several layers.

One of these, the deepest, contains little channels called because they contain latex,

is layer is next to the cambium.

Surface of bark

lactiferous

idllliiJ.-----, Bark

Cambium Wood

In tapping, cut these little tubes containing latex. But you must take care not to cut the cambium,

Wooden lath

R I the metal ribbon round tree.

pl

Wooden lath

With an awl (an iron nt).,. make a along n The cut ends when have gone right round the tree. The beginning of the cut and the end the cut are on the same vertical line.

With the awl make a vertical channel from the lower edge of the cut.

The cut and the channel must be deepened. This is done with a a tool that is used by pushing it so as to remove bark,

Sharpened tip

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a this so as

as close as possible to but damaging it.

the bark is about 6 illimetres ick, the cut must be 4.5 millimetres deep.

The vertical channel is 25 centimetres long. the lower end of this channel, put a

Below that, put a cup called a latex cup. Tie it to the tree.

the

The latex flows along the cut, into the channel, and at last, through the gutter, it drops into the cup.

Cut

Channel

Gutter

Latex cup

The latex that flows when you first make the cut is not good for harvesting, so for several days you do not harvest any latex, but all the same you must come and cut the bark.

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Early in the i the plantati reopen the

taki has coagulated cut

and it in a basket. Take away also any latex that has flowed over the bark.

Then, with the gouge, take out a little piece of ba , 1.5 millimetres thick, without touching the cambium.

Make the cut as far as 1 millimetres from the cambium.

, Bark·

l

+-~ 1.5 mm

The latex flows along the cut, then down the channel, and through the gutter, it drops into the latex cup.

Then, 4 hours later, come again and collect what is in the cup. Two days afterwards, clean out the cup.

One man can tap trees a day. The man who does the tapping is called the tapper.

If you make the cut badly, and if you touch the cambium, the bark closes up badly. It splits and turns brown. Then the tapping must be stopped.

There is a product for treating this browning of the bark.

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E

ble,

t m n

Each tree ou Id be Thus, • one tree tapped on u • another, on • a third on

Each tapper can tap

e

he H 3 since he

II • one group tapped • one group tapped • group pped

u

tapping

a Tuesday and Fri

nesday and

Friday

1 at the time makes new leaves.

a week,

leaves

worked over the length the tree, taking the bark, that is, after 7 years, you can begin again, starting at 1,5 metres the ground.

You can do this three times. That means can harvest latex for years. After that, it best to make a new plantation.

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Fl IN E R

In the bark of the rubber tree there is a liquid called ________________________ ,

The place where you sow the seeds to make them germinate is called ______ _

.For grafting, you use a -------------------------------------------------------------------··

The terraces must be made on the ------------------------------------------------------·

To d isbud means __________ ------- ------ ___ ---------- ____ -------- ____________________________ .

The disease which makes the roots rot is called -----------------------------------··

Between the wood and the bark there is a layer which cannot be seen

with the naked eye; it is called ---------------------------------------------------------··

The little tubes that produce latex are called ----------------------------------------·

R E L

Why are rubber trees grown?

How do you prepare the young plant (the stock) which is to take the

scion? Make a drawing.

How do you take the scion? Make drawings.

How do you make the holes before planting the young trees in the

plantation?

How do you protect the trees against white root rot?

How do you start the tapping?

How do you harvest the latex?

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