Jatropha curcas news
here you find the news of the last two years. For
news before this time please go to the archives at the bottom of this page!
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08. 08. 2008 |
JATROPHA INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS 2008 17 - 18 December 2008 Venue: Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore |
| 02. 06. 2008 |
Flying with Jatropha (in German), to download the 2-page article of "DER SPIEGEL": Air New Zealand packt Jatropha in den Tank
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01. 06. 2008 |
To download the GEXSI / WWF Study on Jatropha worldwide
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11. 05. 2008 |
Update of Madagscar-Jatropha-Study by Uellenberg (in German)
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Version actualisé de l'étude sur le Jtropha au Madagascar pa A. Uellenberg (en francais)
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| 31. 03. 2008 |
Jatropha conference in Madrid, 14 - 15. of May, 2008
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| 19. 01. 2008 |
Jatropha in
Madagaskar – Sachstandsbericht 2007
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| 19. 01. 2008 |
Rapport sur l'état actuelle de Jatropha en Madagascar |
18. 01. 2008
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Jatropha conference in Madrid, |
| 18. 01. 2008 |
High yielding plant |
The plantation in Malaysia, where the photo of this
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High yielding plant |
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| 13. 01. 2008 |
West African Biofuels
Summit 2008 (Centre For Jatropha Promotion and
Biofuels-CEJAB AFRICA) |
14. 12. 2007 Farmers reject Jatropha (in Ghana),
13. 12. 2007 Jatropha article in the Wall Street Journal: (click on the title to download the article!
Jatropha may be a more economic biofuel than corn
8. 12. 2007
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Histor of the
KAKUTE
plant oil stove To read the article, click here or on the photo! |
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27. 10. 2007 Article on Jatropha in Nature (click on the picture to read/download the article!)
Click here for the editorial of Nature on biofuels!
26. 10. 2007
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Jatropha drawing from Cape Verde Island by Georg Forster in 1772 for enlargement, click on the photo!
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28. 09. 2007
Biofuel Conference in Bali, Indonesia, 10 - 11- Dec. 2007
26. 09. 2007
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land for about 10.000 ha of Jatropha plantation in the north of Angola Click on the pictuire for enlargement! |
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25. 08. 2007
Another oil plant! Promising?
Reasons for Simarouba
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In a country with the largest cattle population as well as that of sheep and goats (small animals), simarouba which cannot be browsed by either cattle, sheep or goat, which can come up on a very wide range of soils from a pH of 3 to pH of 9, being an evergreen tree, with 65 percent oil in the seeds (equivalent to olive oil), which can be used both as edible or non edible, with the potential of extracting ethanol from the pulp, with the leaves having the property of curing chicken guniya disease, with no allelopathic effect and recharging groundwater, what else you want and hence is called PARADISE TREE. It is unfortunate that this tree did not get the right support. |
25. 08. 2007
Bio Fuel for Better Life : Cleaner, Greener and Cheaper
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Jatropha (Biofuel) conferenz in
Bali, Indonesia |
22. 08. 2007
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an article in the International Harald Tribune of the 6th August 2007 click on the headline to see the article! or look directly in the internet: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/06/opinion/edsimoes.php |
18. 08. 2007
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International Workshop on the Development of the Jatropha Curcas L. Industry, (Hainan Island, China) |
The conference will be held in Hainan, China, the 30 and 31st of October.
Theme of the workshop: Development of JCL and bio-diesel industry
17. 08. 2007
Mr. Hak with fruits of a
high yielding Jatropha plant
in Sisopon, Banteay Meanchey province, Cambodia
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16. 08. 2007
Improvement of root initiation with plant hormones in Cambodia realized!
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Roots of cuttings treated with plant hormone 20 days after plantation into polybags
07. 08. 2007
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Jatropha
Biodiesel Conference for more information, click here!
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10. 06. 2007
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Green Gold in a Shrub, Entrepreneurs target the Jatropha plant as the next big biofuel, by Rebecca Renner |
08. 06. 2007
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Jatropha plants
from Indonesia clicking on the photo gives you an enlarged picture! |
 Ardiya & Eiichi |
 High yielding plant from Bali |
 Plant with high percentage of female flowers |
30. 05. 2007
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18. 05. 2007
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Photos of Shenyu
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14. 05. 2007
Vanilla Development Foundation are happy to invite you and your networks to
the 2nd National Jatropha
curcas L. conference which will be held in
Mombasa-Kenya from 29th-31st May, 2007.
Details are available through our website
www.vanillajatropha.org and we will highly appreciate is you can circulate
the URL to your links.
You may also directly book accommodation to Sun n Sand through a linkage in our website.Advance booking is advisable as we are receiving overwhelming response for participation. For any concerns feel free to contact us.
Ian Kopar
Conference Correspondence Officer
VANILLA-JATROPHA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION,
P.O BOX 76214,
NAIROBI, Kenya
15. 04 2007
Details of the Jatropha Seminar of the 26th to 28th of March, you may find here!
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15. 04 2007
New photos of high yielding plants from Indonesia (Ardiya) 120 days after planting in the field |
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| 19. 01 2007 |
Expert Seminar on Jatropha curcas, agronomy and genetics Organised by Fuels from Agriculture in Communal Technology (FACT) Dates: 26-28 March 2007, Location: Wageningen, the Netherlands |
17. 01. 2007
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High Yield Jatropha Plants of Mr. Liang on Java, Indonesia It seems , there are high yielding plants on Java, Indonesia, The plantation (right picture) is 8 months old. Up to December 2006, they planted 4 000 000 trees.
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 the yield is not yet measured. The plants are too young |
 8 months old plantation near Jogjakarta, Java, Indonesia |
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16. 01. 2007 Jatropha grafting in Domenican Republic click on the photo to see it enlarged!
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02. 11. 2006 High Yield Jatropha Plants in Brazil ?
It seems, that in the state of Minas Greais |
 good yielding bush |
 50 year old Jatropha tree |
| 01. 11. 2006 |
Madagascar Conference |
Information Brief
BioEnergy and Jatropha
17-18 October 2006 |
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12. 10. 2006
Workshop on Jatropha oil extraction and use of the oil for soap making and as fuel for lighting, for cooking and as diesel substitute
25. October 2006 in Pedro Santana, Dominican Republic
for more information, visit the DomRep page of this website (GTZ-project Artibonito, workshop)
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11. 10. 2006 First Jatropha testing in Europe, Sicily, Italy
Report on experiences will be available after winter time. for more information, visit the Italy page of this website |
Experimental Jatropha Field in Sicily |
10. 10. 2006
Jatropha séminaire/workshop 16 - 17 octobre 2006 sur les avancements des dossiers Jatropha
02. 10. 2006
Jatropha Regional Workshop in Accra, Ghana, organized by UNCTAD and EBID, 13 - 14- Nov. 2006
02. 10. 2006
In Indonesia they
succeeded to select some early flowering and high yielding Jatropha plants
and multiplied them by cuttings in an industrial scale in nurseries. Here
are some of the photos:
To see them enlarged, please go to the Indonesia page.
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| 2 months old sapling flowering | 3 months old plants with fruits still in polybags | Collecting fruits from a good performing Jatropha bush | Nursery of the company with vegetative multiplication of the selected bushes |
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| 2-months old sapling without modification of the root system |
2 months old saplings, left: with root modification right: without root modification |
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22. 08. 2006
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Jatropha in Myanmar gets high priority: |
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23. 07. 2006
New Jatropha
curcas variety In the town of Sambava, in the north of Madagascar, a variety of a Jatropha curcas species was photographed (by R. K. Henning), which has extremely larger leaves and also larger fruits and seeds. (Click on the pictures to see them enlarged!) |
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06. 07. 2006
Jatropha Journal online starts on this website (to read, click here)
The objective of this “Journal section” in the Jatropha website is to give the visitors of this website and people working in the Jatropha field the opportunity to publish the results of their work and to present them to a large interested public.
The discussion about this articles can be done in the Jatropha Discussion Forum.
To publish an article, please send your paper by e-mail to Mr. Reinhard Henning. If it is accepted, it will be published in the Journal section, together with the e-mail address of the author. Articles can be written either in English (preferred), in French or in Spanish. It is recommended to add an English summary, if it is in one of the other languages. Photos should be sent as a .jpg file, to be able to compress it. To avoid spam mail to the author, the sign @ will be replaced by the sign (a).
| 25. 06. 2006 Jatropha conference in Nairobi, Kenya For further information, please contact the Vanilla Development .Foundation or click here: |
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National Jatropha Conference, Exhibition For further information please contact Vanilla Development Foundation secretariat on: Tel: +254 020 27 36 400, Mobile: +254 722 877 644/ 0724 348 090/ 0722 351 253 Email: vdfken@yahoo.com or d.nyamai@cgiar.org |
| 17. 06. 2006 Jatropha in Yunnan - China In China, Jatropha is mainly distributed in the hot-dry valley areas in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan. The Yunnan forestry authorities say that actually about 500 thousand mu (33 thousand ha) are covered with Jatropha forest. The province has projected to develop about 10 million mu (667 thousand ha) of Jatropha forests in the next few years. |
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| 15. 06. 2006 Madarail, a private enterprise which runs the railway system of Madagaskar, is planning to run the train from Antananarivo to Toamasina (Tana - Côte est, TCE) with Jatropha oil. Each year about 100 ha of Jatropha plantation shall be created. See the photo of a similar train at right. |
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| 12. 06. 2006 Feasibiliy study in the SAVA region in the noth east of Madagascar (vanilla region) finished. The aim of the study was to look into economic feasibility of the production of Jatropha oil as substitute for diesel fuel. Results will soon be available. Click on the photo to see it enlarged! |
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03. 03. 2006
National Jatropha Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, 3/4 april 2006
Organised by JPTL. For more information please contact Mr. Faustin Zakaria: e-mail: faustinz(a)yahoo.com (please read (a) as @, this is to avoid spam mail), National Jatropha Conference Coordinator. Tel: +255 744 383978
This 2-day conference will be at the 3rd and 4th of april 2006, (second day field trips)
To see the progtramme/timetable, please click here!
To download the programme/timetable click here (pdf, 14 kB)
23. 02. 2006 The Bielenberg Ram Press now produced in Madagascar by VALY in Fianarantsoa. Click here for the test results! |
 Valy Jatropha press at ERI in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar |
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07. 01. 2006 Study on Jatropha
curcas as by Clive Richardson |
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| Here you find the notes concerning past years: | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
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