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GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR JATROPHA PLANTATION - NEW FUEL : Krishna Jatropha & Bio-diesel Projects

For further details please contact:
Krishna Jatropha & Bio-diesel Projects
(A Unit of Krishna Engineers & Consultants)
4723, Laxmi Vihar, Sainik School
Bhubaneswar – 751005
Email: info@krishnaenergy.com / krishnaenergy@gmail

Jatropha is a very sturdy forest shrub/tree having life of about 50 years. It is resistant to high winds and drought. The tree is rain fed plant and does not require more watering after the first two/three years. Jatropha grows almost anywhere, even on gravelly, sandy and saline soils. It also does not require any special care as regards to fertilizers or pesticides. No other maintenance is required for the remaining life of the plant.

Produce seeds worth Rs.20000/-. And it is without any expenditure on fertilizers, pesticides, water or seeds. There is initial expenditure for plantation, which will start paying in 2-3 years.

This being a sturdy forest tree we can use waste lands. Thus this tree is selected considering optimum earning/acre with minimum investment and aftercare.The seeds contain average of 35% oil and yield about 75% cake after cold pressing of the seeds in screw type oil expeller.

Manpower is required only for plucking of pods and breaking them in to seeds and it will provide excellent opportunities for rural employment.
Jatropha plantation provides not only bio-diesel but also other products such as manure for the crops, methane for power generation and glycerol for industrial use besides, enormous advantage of carbon trading.

By-products from Jatropha processing, are increasingly being used in modern industry for cosmetics, varnishes and paints, lubricants, resins, adhesive, dyes and inks, explosives, pesticides, etc.


Jatropha has the ability to lift many people from poverty to financial independence, from despair to respect and unemployment to business owners.
Our Goal:
1.To utilize the large tracts of cheap barren land, large and inexpensive rural workforce to develop alternative energy options.
2.Explore how the permanent exploitation of the different aspects of Jatropha might be a real alternative for transportation and energy production, which benefits four main aspects of development and secure a sustainable way of life.

Objectives of our Mission:
1. Make Jatropha plantation and bio-diesel production a low risk venture with attractive returns by value addition like making Candle, Soap, Cosmetic, Biogas, Bio-fertilizer and Bio-pesticides through networking with Entrepreneurs, Farmers, Educated Youths, SHG and NGOs.
2. Help attract private investors in Jatropha cultivation and bio-diesel production development.
3. Promote and recognize endeavors to build technical capacities of rural entrepreneurs.
4. Help create new work opportunities in Jatropha cultivation, bio-diesel production related sectors.
5. Highlight environmental and social integration of Jatropha cultivation and bio-diesel production systems in rural communities.
6. Provide gender sensitive socio-economic and environmental analysis of Jatropha cultivation and bio-diesel production requirements in rural communities .

Our Vision:
1. To promote Jatropha plantation in 10,000 acres of land within the State, which can generate tremendous job opportunities among the rural masses. To set up 100 Nurseries to produce 1,00,000 seedlings in each unit.
2. To set up 10 TBO Gardens.
3. To set up 100 oil extraction units
4. To set up 10 Bio-diesel Manufacturing Plants.

Our Scope of Services:
We offer following COMPREHENSIVE services for Farmers/SHG/NGO/Entrepreneurs.
1. Establishment of Nurseries to ensure best planting material of JATROPHA.
2. Providing proper seedlings that will yield high output, above 5 kg. per annum per plant.
2. Plantation and popularization of JATROPHA in on going system of farming.
3. Advise and assistance for Intercropping of important Herbals in Multi tier farming system.
4. Entering into 100 % guaranteed buyback agreements with small / large scale JATROPHA cultivators.
5. Oil Extraction and other value added services like making Candle, Soap, Cosmetic, Biogas, Bio-fertilizer and Bio-pesticides.
6. Offering 100% buyback of produced seeds & oil at fixed rates.
7. Preparation of Bankable Detailed Project Report (DPR) for Plantation of JATROPHA & Bio-diesel Plant.
8. Supply of Equipments, high-yielding Seeds, Fertilizers & Organic Manure incidental to cultivation.
9. Supply, Installation & Commissioning of Oil expeller and Trans-esterification plant for bio diesel production.
10. Setting up Bio-diesel based power generators for rural electrification in a cluster of 50 remote villages.

Value Addition of Jatropha
1. After getting 25 to 30% of the oil from the seeds, balance yield is 70 to 75% of cakes. This is a major by product of bio diesel production.
2. This cake has also a great potential of providing additional bio energy in the form of electricity and biogas, fertilizer and pesticide. It is found that I kg of cake produces 0.5 m of gas, which is almost six times of gas produced by I kg of cow dung.
3. Slurry from bio gas plant can further be processed as manure. The slurry of the bio gas plant can be mechanically separated into concentrate of rich nutrients for using in plantation. The dried out slurry forms manure for the agricultural use. Both these products can provide a major substitute to chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES:
There are four sources of income with our project.
1. Nursery Raising & Plantation Of JATROPHA
2. Extraction Of Oil & Value Addition
3. Production Of Bio-Diesel
4. Carbon Finance



INVESTMENT & BENEFITS IN JATROPHA:

Nursery Raising & Plantation Of JATROPHA:
JATROPHA cultivation generates an income of Rs.10, 000/- to Rs.20, 000/- per Acre and if grown in 200 Acre in a village, it can provide adequate employment to all landless workers all through the year. The plant after 2-3 years can on an average produce 2 kg of seeds per plant. This output will increase up to 4-5 kg after the maturity and development of the tree. Such 1000 trees can be planted in one acre of land.

1 Kg. of oil will be available from 4 kg of seeds. One acre can produce 0.5 to 1.0 ton of oil with Jatropha plantation. The 1000 plants will provide 2000 kg to 4000 kg of seeds to produce 0.5 to 1.0 ton bio diesel.

Considering present average rate of Rs.5 per kg for the seeds of Jatropha 1 acre of plantation can produce seeds worth Rs.10000/- to Rs.20, 000/-. This production can be obtained without any expenditure on fertilizers, pesticides, water or seeds. There is initial expenditure for plantation, which will start paying in 2-3 years.

To support farmers financially and to build up the confidence, plantation of castor can be undertaken in the same land between the rows of Jatropha plants. Rain fed castor can give immediate yield within 4-6 months. Oil percentage in the castor seeds is about 45 to 50%. Per acre output will be about 8 quintals to 10 quintals. The price for castor is in the range of Rs.8-10 per kg and thus the initial income per acre will be in the range of Rs.8000 to 10000. This plantation, however, will need higher level of expenditure on seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and watering besides higher level of manpower for cultivation.

Extraction Of Oil & Value Addition
For integrated Oil Extraction & Value Addition production Unit, suitable for entrepreneurs in small villages, the total investment of Rs.5,00,000 with the income potential of Rs.15, 000 to Rs. 20,000 per month. The entrepreneurs can manufacture Candle, Soap, fertilizer, pesticide, nutrients and manure.

Production Of Bio-Diesel
For Home Bio-Diesel production Unit, suitable for entrepreneurs in small villages, the total investment is Rs. 3,00,000 with the income potential of Rs.10, 000 to Rs. 12,000 per month. For Industrial Bio-Diesel production units, the investment ranges from Rs.10 Lac to Rs. 1 Crore depending on the production capacity of the unit. Expected maximum payback period is around 24 months.

Carbon Finance
A solution to greenhouse effect the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has been introduced. CDM is one of the Kyoto mechanisms; the CDM aims to promote sustainable development in developing countries as well as to help Parties achieve compliance with their Carbon Emission Reduction (CER). It allows investing in emission-saving projects in developing countries and gaining credit for the savings achieved through the generation of Carbon Emission Credits that they can use to contribute to compliance with part of their emission reduction targets. Growing plants, which are later processed into fuel, recycles the Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere when biofuel is burned. Thus, the CO2 emission of Jatropha oil can be assumed almost zero.

For this reason, a project, which aims to exploit the potential of Jatropha as energy crop, owns all requisites to be eligible within the CDM. The carbon dioxide absorption of 8 Kg. per tree per Year can be converted into Carbon Credit Certificates under the CDM Guidelines of the Kyoto Protocol.

Including revenue from carbon credits from petro-diesel substitution and possibly carbon sequestration and nitrogen based fertilizer substitution; biodiesel projects become considerably financially attractive. See Table below for CER estimations for a 100 acres Jatropha plantation
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India's first bio-diesel pump to start in September
AHMEDABAD: In winter 2005, Chief Minister Narendra Modi was at the Gujarat Agriculture University campus in Navsari, riding a tractor with a difference - it ran on bio-diesel. Come September, that bio-diesel will be available at a pump for the first time in India.

The bio-diesel production, from Jatropha plants, is the brainchild of 40-year-old Dharmendra Parekh, chairman and managing director of Aditya Aromedic and Bio-Energy. Since April, the firm has been producing bio-diesel from the jatropha plant.

Registered in 2005 and set up with a capital outlay of Rs 5 crore, the company produces 17,000 litres of bio-diesel per day at its 140,000-sq ft plant located in Tarsadi village on the Navsari-Bardoli highway in Navsari district.

The bio-diesel is sold at Rs 38.90 per litre while the price of regular diesel is Rs 39.20 per litre and that of premium diesel Rs 40.40.


The firm has been pre-selling its entire output every day since April. "We don't have to do any marketing. On the contrary I take a deposit of Rs 5,00,000 from all my customers and everyone irrespective of the quantity purchased has to pay the full amount in advance. And the delivery is done only after 20 days," says Parekh.

"I have at least five customers waiting in the queue, each of whom has a daily requirement of over 500 tonnes of bio-diesel." Right now, the fuel is supplied from two depots - one at Navsari and other at Mehsana in north Gujarat.

The clientele is spread over Ahmedabad, Nadiad, Vadodara and north Gujarat, Mumbai and Delhi.

Importantly, diesel vehicles do not need to modify their engines to use bio-diesel. "I have been using my own bio-diesel in my Tata Indica diesel car for the past nine months and it runs very smoothly and also gives me a mileage of 21 to 22 km on the highway," says Parekh, a graduate in computer science and master in bio-informatics. "There is no problem at all even if you keep on changing the fuel from regular diesel to bio-diesel."

Parekh also claims that his bio-diesel was much better in quality than most of the premium diesel brands being hawked by the oil majors.
The hardy jatropha plant is resistant to drought and pests. It produces seeds containing up to 40 percent oil. When the seeds are crushed and processed, the resulting oil can be used in a standard diesel engine, while the residue can also be processed into biomass to generate electricity.

To ensure a steady supply of jatropha, Parekh has entered into a contract with 1,500 farmers of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. These farmers plant jatropha in the periphery of their fields so that the normal food chain is not disturbed. Over 300 hectares of land have been brought under jatropha cultivation.

"In a jatropha plantation you get your break-even within three years and the plant makes money for you for the next 40 years," says Parekh. He has prepared a plantation manual for jatropha farmers.

The most important aspect of jatropha is that it can grow on soil otherwise considered a wasteland.

Parekh has a huge first-mover advantage in this field. But it's not a smooth ride all the way. "It is a very hard and complicated thing, especially the procurement of raw materials," he says. "You have to plan out each and everything in such a manner that the fuel you produce becomes commercially viable."

The company has staff strength of 200. Crude, glycerine and de-oiled cakes are the by-products. The company is now preparing a blueprint to extract biogas from the de-oiled cakes, leaving manure as the last residue. The company plans to use this biogas for power generation.
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