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Question
What do you understand by the term ‘Tapping’ and with which crop this term is associated?
Solution
When the rubber plants mature into trees after 7 or 8 years they are tapped for rubber sap. ‘V’ shape cut is made in the bark of the tree and a pot is tied round the trunk just below the tip of the cut. It is known as tapping. This term is associated with production of natural rubber.
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