Abstract:
Rubber is an industry of strategic importance to Sri Lanka as it is one of the top ten
producers and the exporter of rubber in the world and as rubber has become an essential
part of our lives and its uses are ranging from the simple rubber eraser to the tire of
airplanes. Further Sri Lanka is having a long rubber growing history being the cradle of
Asian rubber industry with ideal climatic and physical conditions allow for the growth of
very high quality rubber.