Why Jatropha?
- High quality oil
- Potential for growing under sub-optimal conditions
- High oil yields per hectare under such conditions enabling competitive ROI
- High CO2 saving potential
- New edible variety opens new opportunities
Why Jatropower?
- First company to sell commercial quantities of jatropha seeds in the market presently
- Non-toxic, edible jatropha seeds and F1 hybrid seeds available for sale Read More
Non-toxic elite cultivar
Jatropower’s JP-2 (now renamed as JPNT-1) is the first ever commercial, standardised, elite non-toxic cultivar..
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Conventional jatropha elite cultivars
JP1010 is Jatropower’s workhorse jatropha cultivar. It is the most sold commercial…
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F1 Hybrid jatropha seeds
The F1 hybrid seeds are the product of a crosses between two elite parent inbreds. Jatropower’s F1..
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PRODUCTS
SERVICES
Remote site evaluation tool
Jatropower offers its clients a proprietary Google Earth based tool to make a preliminary..
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Plantation Profitability assessment tool
JATROPOWER has designed a business model tool to calculate the profitability…
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Plantation Management support
JATROPOWER personnel possess vast experience in supporting establishment and maintenance of jatropha…
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TECHNICAL EXPERTS
JATROPOWER is managed by Directors covering research, agronomy and commercialisation of Jatropha
Dr. George Francis
CEO of JATROPOWER Group, is of Indian nationality. After obtaining his PhD from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, he did 6 years of fundamental research on Jatropha. He also has extensive experience of managing intercultural.. Read More
Prof. J.Oliver
CEO of JATROPOWER India. Prof. Oliver’s professional career spanning 38 years was mostly devoted to the agricultural extension services. He worked with the Department of Agriculture of the Government of Tamil Nadu and with the Tamil Nadu.. Read More
Mr. Charles Barnabas Gasston
Managing Director of JATROPOWER Kenya. Barney Gasston has decades long experience in the implementation and management of agricultural projects in Africa dealing with bio-energy production, medicinal plant production on contract.. Read More
RESEARCH
Jatropower’s research priorities
Selection and purification of elite cultivars and parents
Scalable methods for production of superior F1 hybrids and derivatives
Robust, affordable and scalable jatropha seed processing
- Edible Jatropha varieties
- Raising seed productivity, high number of fruits per bunch
- Early flowering and yielding
- Short statured plants
- Synchronised fruiting
- Oil content in seeds and fatty acid composition
- Seed processing and by-products
NEWS
Zimbabwe jumps back into jatropha 12 years on
India’s first biofuel flight uses jatropha bio-aviation spirit
New publication from Jatropower “Non-toxic Jatropha promises to shake up the fuel vs food debate” article available on request.
JatroPower develops robust small-scale processing equipment for edible, non-toxic jatropha seeds
Downloads Latest jatropower Profile Short Jatropower Presentation Jatropower product Offer JATROPOWER AG Haldenstrasse 5, CH-6340 Baar, Switzerland JATROPOWER Bio-Trading Pvt Ltd, Prof. J. Oliver, 18/73, Bharathi Park 7th Cross Road, Saibaba Colony, Coimbatore –...
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