Benefits and Characteristics
- Can grow on non-arable, or marginal lands and can help combat desertification.
- Requires little maintenance and water
- Improves soil fertility throughout its life-cycle
- Possesses medicinal as well as other multiple uses (e.g. various lubricants)
- Create green cover for long term ecological benefits (CO2, Storage)
- Jatropha is a perennial requiring far less fertilizer and chemicals than annual crops
- Lower gas emissions than palm, groundnut, cottonseed, rapeseed, soy and sunflower oils.
- Jatropha plantations will generate for 35-40 years
- High Yield- The oil yield per hectar is among the highest of tree born seeds.
- Market price can be set according to its fuel value.
- Revenue to build on Jatropha oil sales
- Carbon Credits
- Intercrop first few years
- Seedcake (fertilizer of pellets)
- Jatropha sustainable and profitable enhances energy security for the country.
- Jatropha farming provides additional income to rural communities from underutilized land.
- Generates rural employment for cultivation of seed collection, and processing.
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