This being a sturdy forest tree we can use waste lands. Thus this tree is selected considering optimum earning/acre with minimum investment and aftercare.The seeds contain average of 35% oil and yield about 75% cake after cold pressing of the seeds in screw type oil expeller.

Manpower is required only for plucking of pods and breaking them in to seeds and it will provide excellent opportunities for rural employment.
Jatropha plantation provides not only bio-diesel but also other products such as manure for the crops, methane for power generation and glycerol for industrial use besides, enormous advantage of carbon trading.

By-products from Jatropha processing, are increasingly being used in modern industry for cosmetics, varnishes and paints, lubricants, resins, adhesive, dyes and inks, explosives, pesticides, etc.

Jatropha has the ability to lift many people from poverty to financial independence, from despair to respect and unemployment to business owners.

Objectives of our Mission:
1. Make Jatropha plantation and bio-diesel production a low risk venture with attractive returns by value addition like making Candle, Soap, Cosmetic, Biogas, Bio-fertilizer and Bio-pesticides through networking with Entrepreneurs, Farmers, Educated Youths, SHG and NGOs.
2. Help attract private investors in Jatropha cultivation and bio-diesel production development.
3. Promote and recognize endeavors to build technical capacities of rural entrepreneurs.
4. Help create new work opportunities in Jatropha cultivation, bio-diesel production related sectors.
5. Highlight environmental and social integration of Jatropha cultivation and bio-diesel production systems in rural communities.
6. Provide gender sensitive socio-economic and environmental analysis of Jatropha cultivation and bio-diesel production requirements in rural communities .

Our Vision: 1. To promote Jatropha plantation in 10,000 acres of land within the State, which can generate tremendous job opportunities among the rural masses. To set up 100 Nurseries to produce 1,00,000 seedlings in each unit. 2. To set up 10 TBO Gardens. 3. To set up 100 oil extraction units 4. To set up 10 Bio-diesel Manufacturing Plants.
Our Scope of Services: We offer following COMPREHENSIVE services for Farmers/SHG/NGO/Entrepreneurs. 1. Establishment of Nurseries to ensure best planting material of JATROPHA. 2. Providing proper seedlings that will yield high output, above 5 kg. per annum per plant. 2. Plantation and popularization of JATROPHA in on going system of farming. 3. Advise and assistance for Intercropping of important Herbals in Multi tier farming system. 4. Entering into 100 % guaranteed buyback agreements with small / large scale JATROPHA cultivators. 5. Oil Extraction and other value added services like making Candle, Soap, Cosmetic, Biogas, Bio-fertilizer and Bio-pesticides. 6. Offering 100% buyback of produced seeds & oil at fixed rates. 7. Preparation of Bankable Detailed Project Report (DPR) for Plantation of JATROPHA & Bio-diesel Plant. 8. Supply of Equipments, high-yielding Seeds, Fertilizers & Organic Manure incidental to cultivation. 9. Supply, Installation & Commissioning of Oil expeller and Trans-esterification plant for bio diesel production. 10. Setting up Bio-diesel based power generators for rural electrification in a cluster of 50 remote villages.
Value Addition of Jatropha 1. After getting 25 to 30% of the oil from the seeds, balance yield is 70 to 75% of cakes. This is a major by product of bio diesel production. 2. This cake has also a great potential of providing additional bio energy in the form of electricity and biogas, fertilizer and pesticide. It is found that I kg of cake produces 0.5 m of gas, which is almost six times of gas produced by I kg of cow dung. 3. Slurry from bio gas plant can further be processed as manure. The slurry of the bio gas plant can be mechanically separated into concentrate of rich nutrients for using in plantation. The dried out slurry forms manure for the agricultural use. Both these products can provide a major substitute to chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES: There are four sources of income with our project. 1. Nursery Raising & Plantation Of JATROPHA 2. Extraction Of Oil & Value Addition 3. Production Of Bio-Diesel 4. Carbon Finance
INVESTMENT & BENEFITS IN JATROPHA: Nursery Raising & Plantation Of JATROPHA: JATROPHA cultivation generates an income of Rs.10, 000/- to Rs.20, 000/- per Acre and if grown in 200 Acre in a village, it can provide adequate employment to all landless workers all through the year. The plant after 2-3 years can on an average produce 2 kg of seeds per plant. This output will increase up to 4-5 kg after the maturity and development of the tree. Such 1000 trees can be planted in one acre of land. 1 Kg. of oil will be available from 4 kg of seeds. One acre can produce 0.5 to 1.0 ton of oil with Jatropha plantation. The 1000 plants will provide 2000 kg to 4000 kg of seeds to produce 0.5 to 1.0 ton bio diesel. Considering present average rate of Rs.5 per kg for the seeds of Jatropha 1 acre of plantation can produce seeds worth Rs.10000/- to Rs.20, 000/-. This production can be obtained without any expenditure on fertilizers, pesticides, water or seeds. There is initial expenditure for plantation, which will start paying in 2-3 years. To support farmers financially and to build up the confidence, plantation of castor can be undertaken in the same land between the rows of Jatropha plants. Rain fed castor can give immediate yield within 4-6 months. Oil percentage in the castor seeds is about 45 to 50%. Per acre output will be about 8 quintals to 10 quintals. The price for castor is in the range of Rs.8-10 per kg and thus the initial income per acre will be in the range of Rs.8000 to 10000. This plantation, however, will need higher level of expenditure on seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and watering besides higher level of manpower for cultivation. Extraction Of Oil & Value Addition For integrated Oil Extraction & Value Addition production Unit, suitable for entrepreneurs in small villages, the total investment of Rs.5,00,000 with the income potential of Rs.15, 000 to Rs. 20,000 per month. The entrepreneurs can manufacture Candle, Soap, fertilizer, pesticide, nutrients and manure. Production Of Bio-Diesel For Home Bio-Diesel production Unit, suitable for entrepreneurs in small villages, the total investment is Rs. 3,00,000 with the income potential of Rs.10, 000 to Rs. 12,000 per month. For Industrial Bio-Diesel production units, the investment ranges from Rs.10 Lac to Rs. 1 Crore depending on the production capacity of the unit. Expected maximum payback period is around 24 months. Carbon Finance A solution to greenhouse effect the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has been introduced. CDM is one of the Kyoto mechanisms; the CDM aims to promote sustainable development in developing countries as well as to help Parties achieve compliance with their Carbon Emission Reduction (CER). It allows investing in emission-saving projects in developing countries and gaining credit for the savings achieved through the generation of Carbon Emission Credits that they can use to contribute to compliance with part of their emission reduction targets. Growing plants, which are later processed into fuel, recycles the Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere when biofuel is burned. Thus, the CO2 emission of Jatropha oil can be assumed almost zero. For this reason, a project, which aims to exploit the potential of Jatropha as energy crop, owns all requisites to be eligible within the CDM. The carbon dioxide absorption of 8 Kg. per tree per Year can be converted into Carbon Credit Certificates under the CDM Guidelines of the Kyoto Protocol. Including revenue from carbon credits from petro-diesel substitution and possibly carbon sequestration and nitrogen based fertilizer substitution; biodiesel projects become considerably financially attractive. See Table below for CER estimations for a 100 acres Jatropha plantation Possible CER revenue for a 100 acres plantation for biodiesel Sl. No.  Variable  AMOUNT 1  Total area in Acres  100 2  Trees (per/acre)  1000 3  Total Trees  100000 4  Total Seeds Collection  100000 - 400000 5  Biodiesel Production  (Litres/year)  25000 - 100000 6  CERs from Biodiesel (Tonnes CO2 e/year)  70 - 280 7  Risk related CER price range ($)  5-25 8  Expected CER revenue ($/yr)  350-7000 Summery of Investment & Profit SN Category Investment    (in Lac) Subsidy From NOVOD (in Lac) Annual Turnover  (in Lac) Payback period                 (in Months) Annual Profit (in Lac)   1 Plantation of 100 Acres of Land 10 03 12 36 10 2 Extraction Of Oil & Value Addition 03 0.8 3 06   3 BDPU Home 100 Ltr./Day 03 0.9 08 24 01.5 4 BDPU Industrial 1 TPD 25 6.0 80 30 10 5 BDPU Industrial 10 TPD 60 10 800 12 60 6 Carbon Finance 100 acres plantation NIL NIL NA NA 0.2 – 3.0 Our Future Planning Each village of Orissa has, on an average, 50 acres of non-cultivable fallow land. This land can be leased to 10 families of landless labourers living below the proverty line. Each family would get five acres plot to plant bio-diesel trees, build a small house and live there. Family members would water these trees, manure them and nurture them to maturity. Each family in one year, can collect oil seeds from the tree planted on its plot valued at Rs.50, 000 – Rs.60, 000 at today’s price. Besides this each of them can get extra revenue from intercropping of various crops. These 10 plot holders should form a group or society, with a local ex-serviceman as its chairman. He should organise intercropping activities, rainwater harvesting, drip irrigation, collection and delivery of oilseeds to the oil extraction plant, payment from the oil extraction plant and distribution to plot holders in proportion to their supply of seeds. He can be paid a fixed salary or some commission. In time to come, society members should be encouraged to raise at least 2-3 cattle and also set up a (Cow Dung & Oilcake) biogas plant. The oilcake that remains after oil extraction is rich in calorific value and can be used as bio-manure and production of biogas. The produced biogas can be used as their cooking meals and as an energy source for their electricity. And further it can be bottled like LPG and will be used in Vehicles. The slurry from biogas can be marketed as manure. A population of 10,000 can rise above the poverty line—10 families per village in Two Hundred Villages. They can produce 10000 ton of bio-diesel to meet the current requirement of diesel. JOIN HANDS WITH US AS OUR FRANCHISEE WE have undertaken the pioneering work of jatropha plantation the promising bio-fuel crop with a mission "GREENING THE EARTH.... EARNING THE RESOURCES FOR RURAL MASSES". We are committed to change the standard of life of Rural Farmers as this potential crop can bring about major economic activity providing Income and Employment opportunities to the rural communities as follows. • Farmers would earn from jatropha farming • Farm worker would have employment • Small rural enterprises would sell or purchase the seeds • Small scale industries grow for oil Production/Extraction • Diesel fuel production would further provide business opportunity • By products like press-cake would be traded by villagers Energy employment and earnings would go together The Krishna Jatropha & Bio-diesel Projects invites you for participation in Franchisee Network for Cultivation/Plantation of Jatropha, Bio-diesel and it’s value added activity, as it is a business with national and international scope & requires minimum start up capital. For further details please contact: Krishna Jatropha & Bio-diesel Projects (A Unit of Krishna Engineers & Consultants) 4723, Laxmi Vihar, Sainik School Bhubaneswar – 751005 Email: info@krishnaenergy.com / krishnaenergy@gmail