Hevea or rubber tree can grow on a
wide range of soil but more than 1 meter
depth and well drained soils of pH below 6'5
and free from underlying sheet rocks are
well suited for its performan@ as a commercially '3
viable plantation crop' Soil under hevea in
general, have developed either under warm
humid equatorial monsoon climate with little
or no dry period or under tropical wet-dry
monsoon climate with variable duration of
dry season, extending from three to five
months. The lndonesia archipelago, Malaysia
and Southern part of Sri Lanka fall under
the former climatic zone, while lndia, north