Rubber Seeds for NG
p. 121 · Read in the full issue
Rubber has been grown in Papua for some 60 years and now is an established industry there, but in the adjoining territory of New Guinea it has not been nearly so successful.
Today, only one area of rubber (in Bougainville district) is produc ing a marketable crop in New Guinea.
In an attempt to remedy the situ ation, a shipment of high-yielding rubber seeds from Malaya reached New Guinea in April and will be tried out on a 65-acre area on a private plantation in New Ireland.