Jatropha curcas news 2006

02. 11. 2006 High Yield Jatropha Plants in Brazil ? It seems, that in the state of Minas Greais in Brazil, there exist  very good yielding plants. see the photos on the Braszil page:

good yielding bush

50 year old Jatropha tree

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)

10. 10. 2006

Jatropha séminaire/workshop 16 - 17 octobre 2006  sur les avancements des dossiers Jatropha

for more details, click here

02. 10. 2006

Jatropha Regional Workshop in Accra, Ghana, organized by UNCTAD and EBID, 13 - 14- Nov. 2006

for description, click here!

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.

Photo: group Ardiya	Photo: group Ardiya	Photo: group Ardiya	Photo: group Ardiya
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
Photo: group Ardiya		Photo: group Ardiya
2-months old sapling without modification of the root system		2 months old saplings, left: with root modification right: without root modification

22. 08. 2006

Jatropha in Myanmar gets high priority:

23. 07. 2006

New Jatropha curcas variety  with larger seeds 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!)

the left leaf and the left fruit and the 2 left seeds are from the ordinary J. curcas, the right ones are from the sambava variety

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).

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.

Weeding in seedling base           Working in seedling base   High yield plant in demonstration plantation Photos: Jatropha activities by the Shenyu New Energy Company in Yunnan,China for more information please visit the China page

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

07. 01. 2006 Study on Jatropha curcas as  resource for Biodiesel in Thailand by Clive Richardson The study can be downloaded as a .rar-file.  Click here to read the executive summary and  to go for downloading!