In California, Terviva has entered into a partnership agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation that includes financing to Terviva. Terviva works with local communities to harvest beans from the pongamia tree to produce oil and protein-rich meal. Pongamia is a subtropical legume tree with unique qualities that make it particularly suited to a climate-changing world. Terviva seeks […]
In Australia, Burnett Mary Regional Group (BMRG), Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. and J-Oil Mills, Inc., with the cooperation of the Queensland government, have agreed to jointly study the establishment of a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply chain by planting Pongamia pinnata (Millettia pinnata) trees, a non-edible oil feedstock, in Queensland for the purpose of CO2 […]
In Paraguay, Investancia signed a 30-year offtake deal with ECB Group that will see 300,000 tonnes of ‘reforestation oil’ from pongamia oil produced annually by 2030. The deal represents a significant step forward in the global green transport transition. The Investancia tree propagation and R&D center, located near Carmelo Peralta, Alto Paraguay, is the world’s […]
In Hawaii, TerViva, an agriculture technology firm commercializing resilient pongamia trees that produce as much as ten times the beans per acre as soy for the supply of plant protein, vegetable oil, and biofuel raised an additional $20 million in its first close of its Series D funding and current commitments. This latest round of […]
In Hawaii, pongamia trees are being farmed for the first time in experimental plots in Oahu to help meet Hawaii’s biofuel needs, specifically for biodiesel and jet fuel. TerViva is heading up the plantings and is talking with Pacific Biodiesel to possibly use their processing plant, though TerViva could make biodiesel with their current equipment. […]
TerViva was founded to “solve the imbalanced equation of a shrinking arable land base and a rising demand for food, fuel and fertilizer. The technology is based on proprietary advancements in agronomy and the genetics of pongamia, a leguminous tree species that produces 8x higher oil yield per acre than soybeans on underused agricultural lands stressed from […]
In Hawaii, Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. and TerViva announced plans to cultivate pongamia on 250 acres of former sugar plantation lands in Central Maui. TerViva estimates pongamia can produce more than 400 gallons of oil per acre, which can be used to produce biofuels. The residue from the pressing process is a seed cake which […]
In Hawaii, Alexander&Baldwin is looking to team up with California-based TerViva to scale up the company’s small-scale pongamia trials on the island to a demonstration-scale project with 250 acres of former sugarcane plantation. If the initial demo goes well, the project could be scaled up further to 2,000 acres with the oil used for biofuel […]
In Hawaii, the owner of Hawaiian Cane & Sugar, Alexander & Baldwin, has announced plans for the transition of its extensive 36,000 acres of sugarcane plantations in Maui to a wide range of crops including pongamia orchards for biodiesel and other crops for biogas production. Other uses for the former sugarcane land are expected to […]
In India, researchers from the Institute of Wood Science & Technology under Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education of found that pongamia trees that are being promoted as a biodiesel feedstock are susceptible to infestations of the gall midge. The midge lays its eggs in the pongamia flowers and over time destroys the flowers […]
