Centre for Jatropha Promotion projects jatropha yields of up to 545 gallons per acre with new combination oil crop cultivation technology

In India, the Centre for Jatropha Promotion announced the commercial release of combination oil crop cultivation (COC) technology, and projected that it could sustain yields of 485-545 gallons per acre of jatropha oil.

CJP Director of Plant Science R.R. Sharma said that “Jatropha plantation occupies about 50% of the planted land and to utilized the rest of land in sustainable manner we have been experimenting different intercropping options, patterns and agro- technologies. We have been in search of such an inter-crop for Jatropha,  oil bearing like Jatropha itself without competing with it for food and water and should be capable of fulfilling Jatropha fertilizer requirement and still maintaining soil fertility.

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