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Jatropha in India is a part of India's goal to achieve energy independence by the year 2012. In general India's strategy is the encouragement of the development of multiple sources of energy by the use of incentives by the federal and state governments. Other examples of encouragement by incentive include the use of nuclear energy (India Nuclear Cooperation Promotion Act), promoting windfarms such as Muppandal, and solar energy (Ralegaon Siddhi).
India's interest in the succulant plant Jatropha is as a renewable energy source as well as a way of addressing general social issues such as unemployment. Large plots of waste land have been selected for Jatropha cultivation that will provide much needed employment to the rural poor of India.[1] Businesses are also seeing the planting of Jatropha as a good business opportunity.[2]
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The state of Chhattisgarh has decided to plant 160 million jatropha saplings on land in each of its sixteen districts in 2006. Its goal is to become biofuel self-reliant by 2015.[3] The Chhattisgarh government in Raipur announced that bio-fuel rich plants like jatropha could help India get over its requirement of 124 million metric tonnes of petroleum products annually. Approximately 72 percent of this amount currently is met through imports at a cost of over Rs.1.5 trillion.[4]
The state of Maharashtra is also becoming involved and has started a project for the identification of suitable sites for Jatropha plantations.[5]
Tamil Nadu at this time is the only state to have a formal Bio-Diesel Policy to distribute wasteland to the poor farmers for the growing of Jatropha crops.[6]
Andhra Pradesh has entered into a formal agreementwith Reliance Industries for Jatropha planting. The company has selected 200 acres of land at Kakinada to grow jatropha for high quality bio-diesel fuel.[7] Chhattisgarh, in the state of Kerala is planning a massive Jatropha planting compaign.[8]
The Indian Railways has started to use the oil (blended with diesel fuel in various ratios) from the Jatropha plant to power its diesel engines with great success.
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Centre For Jatropha Promotion - Promoting farming for future fuel - Growing Diesel Fuel Plant. Retrieved on November 15, 2006.
- ^ India Inc eyes jatropha farming in a big way. Business Line (September 02 2005). Retrieved on November 15, 2006.
- ^ Indian State to Plant 160 Million Jatropha Plants in Quest for Biofuel Self-Sufficiency (April 04 2006). Retrieved on November 15, 2006.
- ^ Kalam discusses bio-fuel with jatropha farmers. Silicon India (November 07 2006). Retrieved on November 15, 2006.
- ^ Identification of suitable sites for Jatropha plantation in Maharashtra using remote sensing and GIS. University of Pune. Retrieved on November 15, 2006.
- ^ Clean Green Energy from Tamil Nadu, India. Retrieved on November 15, 2006.
- ^ RIL enters bio-diesel farming. Retrieved on November 15, 2006.
- ^ Indian State to Plant 160 Million Jatropha Plants in Quest for Biofuel Self-Sufficiency. Retrieved on December 4, 2006.
[edit] External links
- The Jatropha System - An Integrated Approach of Rural Development
- Bio Diesel - Jatropha curcas
- Tree Oils India Limited
- The cultivation of Jatropha curcas in India
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