Analysts predict that there will be a shortage in the supply of natural rubber in the future. This is not only the case because the demand for rubber is increasing in Asian and Pacific countries, but because as the top natural-rubber producing countries—Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia—begin to become increasingly industrialized, there will be less of an incentive to create more rubber plantations, and there will instead be a favoring towards further industrialization in the form of creating more factories and other manufacturing jobs. Workers will migrate from the plantations to the cities, bringing about the need for foreign workers to work the plantations. In addition Palm plantations have begun to replace rubber, due to the growing demand for Palm oil. All of these things contribute to a decreasing incentive to plant rubber trees, as well as the possibility of current plantations facing a shortage of labor because more people will desire to work in the cities, where wages are higher. In these newly industrialized countries, even though supply will decrease, the dropping prices are likely to be glossed over because of economic growth in other areas. Since February 2011, prices have steadily declined, falling nearly 50%, and is down to about 143 cents per pound. To remedy this, plantations are planning on slowing production by using aging rubber trees that are no longer in their highest-yielding phases.