Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: The Trang area was the first area of Thailand where rubber trees were planted , brought there by governor Phraya Ratsadanupradit Mahison Phakdi from Malaysia in 1899 .
Simplified: Trang was the first city where rubber trees were planted . Governor Phraya Ratsadanupradit Mahison Phakdi brought rubber from Malaysia and planted it here before anywhere else in southern Thailand in 1899 .