Tree-derived rubber is a friendly to the environment! Rubber Becomes Important Cash Crop By Peter S. Goodman The Washington Post Nov. 24, 2004 12:01 am ET XIAOMANSAN VILLAGE, China -- Roosters break into a ⦠This crop was introduced into Nigeria in the 1870s and tried in the Niger Delta area of Bonny and Calabar. Rubber needs equatorial climate to grow but it is now cultivated in hot and wet climate garden in natural way. Rubber is produced through chemical processes in an artificial way. Rubber: Rubber is another cash crop. It can also be synthesized. Some cash crops are tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, jute etc.So, the correct option is 'Rubber'. Under cash crops, those commercial crops are included which are produced by farmers mainly to earn money. Cocoa is another cash crops in Nigeria that is very popular and it is the leading agricultural export of Nigeria. These are ideally suited to Malaysia's hot, wet, and humid climate. Furthermore, Thailand has been the world's largest rubber producer and exporter since 1991. However, this important agricultural crop didnât do well there. The third period, starting in 2001, was the rubber period, the focus of this research. A) Important Cash Crops. Malaysia has one of the highest standards of living in South East Asia, largely earned by its expanding manufacturing sector. Rubber is both natural and artificial. Much of this agricultural land is devoted to cash crop plantations, particularly oil palm and rubber, with tree crops occupying 17% of Malaysia's land area. Brazil, Malaysia, India, Thailand, and Indonesia are large producers of this form of rubber. Rubber is needed by different industries and transport industry in this modern age. The cash crop is often not consumed by the farmer himself. This is particularly the case with cocoa and coffee intercrops. Nigeria is also one of the top producers of cash crops like millet, sweet potato, cashew nuts and groundnut. Some important cash crops have been discussedbelow in detail: 1. Rubber is a perennial plant grown traditionally as an important cash crop which generates income as well as having a fundamental influence on the way of life for many rural people in Thailand, particularly in the south of the country. Cash crops are those crops which are grown and are sold for their profit. Sugarcane. A cash crop or profit crop is an agricultural crop that is grown to sell for profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. The Para rubber tree is prevalent in the tropics and is grown as a cash crop in South America and Southeast Asia. Geographical Conditions of Growth: It is a tropical as well as sub-tropical crop. Forest lands were changed into cash crop farms, so much that the natural capital lost its balance and became less dependable. Rubber came to the northeastern region as a result of the promotion of the state. INTRODUCTION: Natural rubber is an elastic hydrocarbon polymer that naturally occurs as a milky colloidal suspension, or latex, in the sap of some plants. C5d-AGRICULTURAL CROPS - CASH CROPS - RUBBER RUBBER. Rubber is grown in Edo, Delta, Ondo, Ogun, Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Imo, Rivers, Ebonyi and Bayelsa states. Sometimes they are also grown for farmers personal use and for the cattles food. In summary, weâve listed the top cash crop exports in the country below: Cocoa: $238.1 million (0.6%) Rubber is one of the agricultural products (cash crop) that Nigeria, West Africa has been known for. The term is used to differentiate marketed crops from subsistence crops, which are those fed to the producerâs own livestock or grown as food for the producerâs family. The entropy model of rubber was developed in 1934 by Werner Kuhn. 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