OTHER USE RUBBER PLANT

In addition to latex can be taken as raw material for the manufacture of various goods of human purposes, the actual rubber still has other benefits. These benefits, although just a sideline, but gave no small profit to the owners of rubber plantations.
Another byproduct of the rubber which gives the advantage is rubber wood or tree trunks.Usually old rubber plant that need to be rejuvenated and replaced with young plants that are still fresh and comes from a more productive clones. Old plants are harvested can be utilized trunk or timber.
Productive period of the rubber plants usually decreases after age 25 years. During this period the rubber can be cut down and replanted. Since the number of plants that are old enough rubber in Indonesia, then the amount of rubber wood obtained not less. In fact, in the year 1985/1986 rubber wood business had triumphed in Indonesia. .
It is in supporting the smooth rubber wood business is a vigorous campaign of wood preservation of tropical forests. Forest trees that can be harvested more years of getting less. As a result, the material is reduced so that the wood furniture industry which is usually only as a rubber substitute materials has now become the main ingredient.Because the price is cheaper than other types of wood, then the market demand for rubber wood is quite high, however, the supply of rubber wood is still stuck in a pattern that depends on the provision of old rubber plant area or area to be replaced with new clones.

Another byproduct of the rubber plantation that had been underused until almost wasted away the rubber seeds. In most estates, rubber seeds just left just like falling from a tree and at most only a child's toy. And if exploited would be quite beneficial because the amount of overflow.
With a total area of ​​the world's largest rubber plant, which reaches more than 3 million ha and 1 ha garden if capable of producing no fewer than 5,000 grains of rubber seed every year, then how many seeds that can be processed rubber. When such large numbers are not used, then in addition to wasted will also contaminate the area of ​​rubber plantations.
Judging from their chemical composition, protein content turned out to countless high rubber seeds. From the results of the analysis of unknown protein levels by 27%, fat 32.3%, water 3.6%, ash 2.4%, thiamin 450 /, 2.5 nicotinic acid, carotene and tocopherol 250, and cyanide as much as 330 mg of each 100 g of material. In addition to relatively high protein content, amino acid pattern of the rubber seeds are also very good. All the essential amino acids the body needs is contained in it. In order for rubber seed can be utilized, it must first be processed concentrate.
Concentrate is a concentrated protein fraction of rubber seed which is already high levels even higher. In the manufacturing process, the fraction of higher levels of proteins made by reducing or eliminating fat or other nonprotein components are soluble. Power to the increased rubber seed proteins can be used for various purposes, mainly as a supplement or complement food products. Understanding supplement here is to increase the protein content of a product, while the notion of complement as a complement to a lack of amino acid food. The types of food products that can be mixed with the concentrate seed synthetic rubber are meat, bread, various snacks, baby food, and much more.
Presence of cyanide made of rubber seed dangerous if consumed raw, without being processed first, through the process of soaking for 24 hours with water that is changed frequently and boiling it open, then the cyanide can be removed, evaporated.
The more types of food that can be enriched by the addition of concentrate protein content of rubber seed, the more people who could benefit from material that is often wasted in the plantation areas.
When the rubber plants are still small, berumurdi under 3-4 years, land plants can be utilized for farming side, which is planted with crops such as soybeans, peanuts, green beans, ginger, or even upland rice.Soybean planting in the area of ​​rubber plantations is recommended because it gives a decent result. How, at first weeds that grow in the area eradicated by using herbicides.After that, the land cleared and cultivated. Then, the soybeans can be planted. Treatment steps such as fertilizing, weeding, pembumbunan, as well as pest and disease control also needs to be done.
Soybean plants that grow to support the growth of rubber plants because soy is a plant Leguminosae, in a period of 3 months was able to plant soybeans at harvest.Furthermore, the land can be planted soybeans back up several times. However, after the plant began rubber-old 3-4 years old or has begun to be tapped and stems of plants grown, planting soybeans in the area of ​​rubber should be stopped.Efforts to use land in a productive rubber trees can be done also with a sheep farm. It has been tried by the Sub Livestock Research Center Sungei Putih, North Sumatra.There investigated the influence of grazing sheep under rubber trees. The trick, of sheep grazing in the area of ​​rubber plantations and allowed to eat the grass that thrives in many areas.
Results of research conducted shows sheep grazing has a beneficial effect. Sheep are farmed in the area of ​​rubber plantations rapid body growth, birth faster, more the number of twins, and child mortality rates declined. Sheep grazing is also not to damage or do not have a negative effect on rubber trees.
The effort for the rubber plantation owners or farmers' means an increase in animal protein production economically without having to open new land. The cost of weeding in the rubber plantations can be reduced by using livestock as a means of biological penyiang. Reciprocal relationship, which produced livestock manure can be used as organic fertilizers and nutrient additives that help to conserve soil fertility fertilization. If this is done on large estates, it means an additional income for their employees. When done by a rubber farmer, is also the added benefit of not a few.
Sheep farm businesses in the area of ​​rubber plantations is very beneficial owner of the plantation since the two businesses are run in the same area. Additional work as a farmer does not spend too much time. Means, productivity can be improved and rubber also increased farmers' income.