Focus point 2
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| Phuket map |
Rubber plantations in Phuket have made a substantial name in ecotourism. They are available for tours, trip and excursions in the plantations. Tourists in Phuket, are provided with, beautiful beaches, wonderful wildlife, and of course the ravishing rubber tree plantations, which is an extremely educational trip for the tourists.
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| A tour through a rubber plantation |
In Thalang, there is a large rubber plantation that is based on tourism, its name is Agro Tourism Phuket. This plantation is funded by the government to educate the tourists on Phuket’s agriculture. There is a medicinal and herbal garden and the rubber farm processing area to give the tourists the real feel for the rubber industry.
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| Pineapples growing in a rubber plantation |
The canopies that the rubber trees produce from the sunlight, is the perfect position to plant Phuket’s famous pineapple plants. The pineapples provides the farmers with an income in the months of waiting for the rubber latex to be ready. So we have discovered here that rubber tree plantations keep the population of Phuket employed. It was found out in a study done in Thailand last month that about 95% of the 12.5 million rai of rubber plantations are smallholding and run by about one million families.
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| The tourists filling beaches in Phuket |
Why would they want to change to a tourist industry? Well, it is clear that the rubber plantations are struggling economically, so therefore, the owners have put the plantations to the use of tourism to get another income. In fact, in 2015 over 13 millions tourists entered Phuket. That is an incredible number. Undoubtedly, the rubber plantations will benefit from having a tourist side, and that will then influence the plantations life in the future.
Overall, rubber plantations in Phuket are realising that they will not survive for long on just the latex produced. Hence, the plantation owners are opening them up to tourist tours and excursions and also the production of pineapples. Without the plantations, some of Phuket’s population will become unemployed and Phuket would certainly be a different place not only economically but also as geographically.
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