Harvesting Natural Latex

It requires a special skill to stretch the tree skin using the sharp knife, he used a special tapping knife to shear off a thin layer of rubber tree's bark. He carefully sheared avoiding the deep cut that may injure the tree. He went from one to another tree, in the blink of eyes I could see the latex flowed into a cup that was attached at tree body. After a few minutes the liquid dried and allow other drop into the cup. The process of harvesting latex itself is simple, the farmer experienced in harvesting natural latex since he had been doing the tapping job for many years, so it made him no trouble while tapping. When harvesting, this milky fluid is very carefully stripped to expose the latex vessel. It was done for couple time until the tapper met the target. It is clearly seen the collected latex in a cup that was tightly attached at the tree's bark. Normally, it takes a half a day to have this amount of latex. The tappers did the latex harvesting during the day but they are some who harvested at night, it depends on the age of rubber plant and its condition that may take different time of harvesting. In this area, I met the tappers did latex harvested on the day with no rain to make sure this fluid milk was not diluted by rainwater. I was not able to count how many tree they had tapped but I could assume, they have done for hundreds trees.