Anticipating the weak demand for Tin Phuket started a plan to diversify their natural resources by planting rubber trees. Today rubber trees cover over 33% of Phuket's land area.
Rubber is made from the tree's latex and is extracted by making incisions in a lefthanded spiral down the trees trunk. The latex runs through numerous latex vessels in the Para tree's bark. The latext slowly runs down the spiral and is collected in a small cup. The latex is then treated with acid and pressed to remove the water. It is then