Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Jatropha Worldwide production

Jatropha originated in Mexico and South America. It is now increasingly being planted around
the world including in Asia (mainly India, Indonesia, and China) and Africa (mainly Egypt,
Malawi, Swaziland and Zambia).
It is claimed that India has 11 million hectares of land being cultivated for jatropha for biofuel3,
and a single fuel company has reported plantings of 60,000 hectares in India, 40,000 hectares
in Africa and almost 75,000 hectares in Asia4.

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