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Jatropha Plant

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JATROPHA CURCAS is a breed of flowering plant in spurge family EUPHORBIACEAL, that is native to American tropics, most likely Mexico and Central America.The crushed jatropha seeds result in jatropha oil which are processed to produce a high quality biofuel or biodiesel that can be used in a standard diesel car or further processed into jet fuel while the residue (press cake) can also be used as biomass feedstock to power electricity plants, used as fertilizer or as animal fodder.
It is expected that there will be an increase in demand for biodiesel by 16.72 million tons by 2017 and India’s biofuel policy will encourage 20% blending of biodiesel with other fuels (Planning Commission, 2003). The plant Jatropha, which is a relatively new crop …show more content…

The future prospects from this will be high if proper infrastructure, credit facilities, good procurement price are made to the cultivators. It will also help to reduce the import tendency of India. The research methodology I used here is based on cost benefit analysis i.e net present value method and cost-benefit ratio. These tools help to estimate the money value of costs and benefits to community of a project. It is done to analyze if the investment made in a project is worthwhile or not.

The major limitation I faced while preparing this project was DATA COLLECTION. Since I could not collect data on my own, I had to rely on secondary data but otherwise I didn’t face any limitations as such.
This paper would help anyone who wants to analyze the future prospects of jatropha cultivation in NE INDIA. By looking at cost and benefits of this cultivation, he may further take on additional factors like technical help in planting and pruning, extension services etc. in his research to estimate benefit cost …show more content…

The money that DI MOHAN pays for jatropha seeds can be used by farmers to repay the loan.

There are dissonant views regarding economic feasibility of jatropha cultivation. The expounders of jatropha argue that, it succeeds without irrigation and also does not compete for water or displace food production. The opponents on the other side squabble that not only yields are much higher with irrigation but even with irrigation jatropha yields are lower than reported by scientific experiments. Even the economics returns are negative. (Jatropha plantations for biodiesel Tamil Nadu, India: Viability, livelihood trade-offs, and latent conflict:
Pere Ariza-Montobbio, Sharachchandra Lele

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