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India’s Chhattisgarh state completes plantation of 100 million jatropha saplings; 1 million hectares planted by 2012

In India, the Chhattisgarh state minister for forests said that the planting of 100 million jatropha saplings on 40,000 hectares throughout the state has been completed. The state spent $15.1 million on the project, which will ultimately plant 1 million hectares of fallow land with jatropha by 2012, and create 1.43 billion in revenue from [...]