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Section: General News - Rubber farming is no longer limited to Mindanao. Through the National Rubber Development Program, other potential areas for the expansion of rubber plantation were being exploited.

With favorable climatic conditions and fertile soils suitable for growing rubber trees, the provinces of Palawan, Mindoro Oriental and Mindoro Occidental are now into planting rubber trees due to its high commercial value.

Palawan now has 625 hectares planted to rubber with 58 hectares productive and the provincial government of Palawan, through its Provincial Agriculture Office (PAO), has embarked in a two-year Plant Now, Pay Later scheme in 2005 to encourage and assist interested farmers and ...

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