In thailand, rubber trees are imperative for a surviving economy. As we have already discovered in my last viewpoint, tourism and pineapple production helps to provide an income for the plantation owners. This is increasingly important due to the fact that around 95% of the 12.5 million rai of rubber plantations in phuket, are owned by around 1 million families. In this viewpoint, it will convey all of the economical effects that rubber plantations has had on Phuket and also Thailand.