Involvement of different types of labors in different activities
Apart from full-time labors, either family or hired labors, there were
also part-time labors in both owner and hired labor households. These part-time labors
were elderly persons over 65 years of age and school children who also carried out
some tasks in rubber productions. The activities in rubber production included cultural
managements of rubber plantation, tapping, collecting latex and processing it into
products either in the form of rubber sheet or rubber cup lump, collecting rubber
scarps, cleaning collecting cups and selling rubber products. Cultural managements
were fertilizer application, weeding, irrigation and others. Activities in making rubber