A view through rubber plantation........

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Why are they all wearing condoms?


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Why are they all wearing condoms?


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:laugh2: Please answer that! :laughing:
May be for birth control.......
The over sized condoms I mean the polythene wrappwers are wrapped around the portion just above the bark which was cut for collecting latex (rubber) to avoid contamination with insects.....
I think this photo is from kerala. We wrap this thing not only as insect barrier but mainly to prevent water drops gets collected in those latex collecting small pots during those rainy seasons.

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Seriously, I like the picture a lot. If you don't know what it is, there's an element of mystery - it's like a flock of ghosts was floating through the forest.
 
Here is the equivalent setting in eastern Myanmar with sheets of raw rubber and a messenger taking them for processing..

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There's some sort of cosmic, chicken-and-egg, ouroboros, circle-of-life thing happening here. The very trees that make the latex products are wearing the latex products that they are used to make ...
 

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