Ceylon Today

Series

Series Name

Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.

42/82

Date Released

12 Oct 1942

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1After Five Years of War
2. 2Gangsters in India
3. 3Corporal Koons, Mm
4. 4Ceylon Today
5. 5Macrobert Lives On

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

Thousands of acres of Ceylon’s bush country are being cleared to make away for aerodromes, with the elephant doing his share along with the bulldozers. But Ceylon’s other industries of tea and rubber are still increasing. Tea pickers are seen at work in the fields and tea baskets are brought in, weighted up and paid for. Rubber trees are tapped and sap cups are collected, and rubber is seen being processed. Bud grafting is also another way of increasing the rubber yield and this is done by grafting a bud of good high quality yielding tree onto younger rubber tree.

Keywords

Agriculture; Animals

Locations

Ceylon

Length of story (in feet)

238

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