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Ancillary Income Generations

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Hevea honey and wood are the two supplementary income-generating products that can raise significant income from rubber plantations. A brief description is given here on the potentialities of these tools in rubber plantations, even though dealing with such subjects is beyond the scope of this book.

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Priyadarshan, P.M. (2017). Ancillary Income Generations. In: Biology of Hevea Rubber. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54506-6_14

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