Field Trip Report on Rubber Research Institute Malaysia ( RRIM ) On the 11th of September, A-Level Academy brought us together with our lecturer Miss Annie and Mr. Tai to a trip to Rubber Research Institute Malaysia which is known as RRIM. This trip is very precious since the rubber land will be sold in the future. We left UCSI University by 1.30 p.m to RRIM by bus. We were looking forward to this trip since we had not even look before a proper rubber tree since we were born. We were also curious about how rubber tree can make so much money by collecting the latex early in the morning that we heard from our ancestors. We reached RRIM at Sungai Buloh after half an hour. When we arrived, we started to bring out our cameras to take photograph of the rubber tree. We even knew the background of RRIM and clones of rubber tree from the person in charge. Henry Wicham had collected 9 rubber seeds and brought to Malaysia. Mr. Tan Chian Yian was the first rubber planter who managed to plant rubber trees commercially in Melaka. Since then rubber trees were planted at many areas till today. Later on, the staff demonstrated how to produce a best clone rubber tree which had high quality of timber and lots of latex and thus increase income. This process can improve the growth rate and is tappable in 4 years after planting. Although the process of cloning of the tree was complicated, it can give lots of advantage. After seeing how to produce a best rubber tree, Mr. Azman showed us how to tap a rubber tree by using a tool called Jebung. He taught us that the Jebung was used to shear off a thin layer of rubber tree’s bark. The latex will then drip into a bucket that were tied along the tree trunk. Many of our classmates were eagerly trying to tap the rubber tree because this may be a life time experience. Some of them found it easy but some of them found that it