Banyan trees, unlike rubber trees, can keep groundwater.

与橡胶树不同，榕树可以保存地下水。

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Even rubber trees, the local people's main source of income, were so dry that they could no longer produce rubber latex.

就连作为当地人主要收入来源的橡胶树，也因干旱而无法生产乳胶。

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Even in Asia, currently blight-free, planting new rubber trees often means cutting down rainforest, to general disapproval.

即使在亚洲，虽然目前还没有叶枯病，但种植新的橡胶树就得砍伐雨林，是公众不赞成的。

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Using non-performing rubber trees as a source of power also helps rejuvenate rubber production by making room for new planting.

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The firm Buchanan Renewable Energies is building a carbon-neutral power plant using woodchips from older rubber trees to generate 35 megawatts of electricity.

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Now,the plantation's eight million rubber trees may help fuel that recovery by producing low-cost electricity.

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On the street, mopeds clatter past and children wave from the backs of pick-up trucks, while in the fields beyond the village, evening shadows fall across the rice paddies and rubber trees.

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Water buffalo and wild cockerels roam among the palms and banyans, while farmers dry sheets of freshly tapped rubber under the trees.

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It can then be turned into plantations growing palm oil, rubber and fast-growing trees for the booming pulp-and-paper industry.

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