One of the projects I worked with last year was establishing a jatropha plantation. Jatropha is a local plant that grows in the tropics (Southeast Asian countries, India, South America, even Florida). Our local plant here (jatropha curcas linn) grows wildly in countrysides. It's usually used for fencing because goats and cows and carabaos avoid it. Recently, it has been considered a goldmine because the seeds, once dried and processed produce biofuel! So aside from its byproducts being turned into soaps, low-grade kerosene oil, fertilizer and firewood, mass production for biofuel can earn the country/company some carbon credit points which can be sold to industrial Kyoto member-countries that produce lots of carbon emission. Another way of solving the climate change.
Below is a picture of a nursery plantation. As you can see, it doesn't need much tending. It grows wildly with grass. Doesn't compete with human food either (like coconut), nor agricultural land.
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3 comments:
Sounds like the perfect plant!
Yessiree, it sounds so....but remember, You reap what you sow!
Bear in mind some basics, averagely, 1000 seeds weigh 1 kg. Each fruit usually contains 3 seeds.
So work out how many plants you need to plant to achieve your target seeds, oil quantity and so on.
So that's what the jatropha looks like! It's a low plant or is that just because these are still young?
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