Jatropha+Plant

Jack Sun**
 * Introduction

Biofuel development in India have started and is now centered around the cultivation and processing of Jatropha plant seeds which are very rich in oil, with at least 40% of the plant avialable to be converted into oil. Though Jatropha oil have been developed into a national project only recently, Jatropha oil has been used in India for several decades as a biodiesel in remote rural and forest communities. The replacing of diesel machines with Jatropha oil is simple as the Jatropha oil could be used directly after extraction in diesel generators and engines. Jatropha provides immediate economic benefits at the local level since it grows well in dry marginal non-agricultural lands, thereby allowing villagers and farmers to leverage wastelands for income generation. Furthermore since Jatropha oil is carbon-neutral, large-scale production will improve the country's carbon emissions profile. Finally, since no "food producing farmland" is required for producing this biofuel, it is considered the most morally acceptable choice among India's current biofuel options as it has no known negative impact on the production of the massive amounts grains and other vital agriculture goods India produces to meet the food requirements of it's massive population. Benefits of Jatropha
 * Is a relatively small tree
 * Fruits are produced in winter when the shrub is leafless or it may produce several crops during the year if soil moisture is good and temperatures are sufficiently high.
 * Each inflorescence yields a bunch of approximately 10 or more ovoid fruits.