PARA RUBBER. 



Distribution of Ceylon Rubber. 

 The rubber from Ceylon in 1905 was distributed as indicated 

 below : — 



Countries to which exported. Rubber, Quantity. 



Cwt. 

 United Kingdom .. .. .. 1,077 



Victoria . . . . . . 8 



Belgium . . . . . . 85 



France . . . . . . 22 



Germany . . . . . . 129 



Holland " .. .. .. 1 



United States of America . . . . 79 



Total . 



1,401 



Acreage of Para Rubber in 1904. 



The total acreage planted in 1904 with rubber 

 the Malay* Peninsula has been estimated at 



To these might be added, Sumatra (say) 

 Java 

 Ceylon 

 India and Burma 



30,000 acres 

 5,000 ,, 

 5.000 „ 



25,000 ,, 

 5,000 ,, 



Total 



'0,000 acres 



Acreage of Para Rubber in Ceylon during 1906. 

 It is difficult to obtain anything approaching a reliable record re- 

 garding the acreage planted in Para rubber at the present time, but 

 the following table shows the areas occupied by this product, or 

 about to be planted with it, in a few of the districts in Ceylon: — 



In addition to the above there are in the Ratnapura, Passara, 

 Badulla, Kandy, Gampola, Polgahawela, and Dumbara Districts, 

 thousands of acres being planted with Para rubber, and there is 

 every reason to believe that similar expansion is taking place 

 in the Straits, India, Java, West Indies, Africa, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 tropical America, and other countries. The Ceylon, India, and 

 Straits public companies alone show no less than 70,000 acres 

 planted, and double that area available and probably suitable 

 for rubber ; in addition to these there are large estates in private 

 hands which are rapidly increasing their rubber acreages. 



* Annual Report of the United Planters' Association, 1904. — F. M. S. 



