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The Amazon rubber cycle or boom (Portuguese: Ciclo da borracha, Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈsiklu da buˈʁaʃɐ]; Spanish: Fiebre del caucho, pronounced [ˈfjeβɾe ðel ˈkawtʃo]) was an important part of the socioeconomic history of Brazil and Amazonian regions of neighboring countries, being related to the commercialization of rubber and the genocide of indigenous peoples.
The plantation was divided into areas and each worker was assigned to a different area to prevent workers from tapping the same trees successively. The town had a strict set of rules imposed by the managers. Alcohol, women, tobacco and even association football were forbidden within the town, including inside the workers' own homes. Inspectors ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Ford sold it to the Brazilian government, which is still running the plantation under EMBRAPA. Today, the area of the plantation is some 10–20 km 2 (3.9–7.7 sq mi) covered extensively with mainly old rubber trees. It still gives the impression of a plantation with some 1000 - 2000 inhabitants (mainly plantation workers and their families).
Some of the Region's oldest towns: Bragança, Xapuri, Tefé, Natividade and Amapá. [4] In order to work on rubber extraction, Brazilians from other states, mainly from the Northeast Region, moved to the region. Also many Japanese families came to work in the agricultural colonies.
Rubber production then moved to parts of the world where it is not indigenous, and therefore not affected by local plant diseases. [18] Today, most rubber tree plantations are in South and Southeast Asia, the top rubber producing countries in 2011 being Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Vietnam. [19]
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The International Rubber Regulation Agreement was a 1934 accord between the United Kingdom, India, the Netherlands, France and Thailand that formed a cartel of major rubber producing nations to restrict global rubber production and maintain a stable, high price for natural rubber. [1] The agreement covered between 90–100% of world producers ...