Identification, selection and multiplication of high yielding
Jatropha curcas L.
plants and economic key points for viable
Jatropha oil production costs
by Reinhard K.
Henning, henning@bagani.
de
1) Identification/selection of hig yielding plants
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Identification, selection and multiplication of high yielding
Jatropha curcas L.
plants and economic key points for viable
Jatropha oil production costs
by Reinhard K.
Henning, henning@bagani.
de
1) Identification/selection of hig yielding plants
Up to now, in many countries Jatropha is well known under different names, but it was mostly
used by the farmers as living fences around their homesteads and gardens, sometimes also
around their fields, to protect crops against roaming animals.
The seeds did not play any
important role.
Therefore the farmers cannot tell, which are good yielding plants.
The first task to start a Jatropha oil production is
therefore to identify such high yielding plants.
This
can be done by watching plants during the fruiting
time (during the rainy season), because one can
recognize the ability of a plant to produce fruits/seeds
by regarding the plant itself and the details of the
branches.
Since flowers of the Jatropha plant are only developed
terminally
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