Re: Progress in Jatropha Plantation in Pakistan

Dear Mr. Shah,

Thank you for your message. I am very well thank you, I trust you are well.

We would be very glad to arrange a meeting at our office in Milton Keynes during the first week of August to discuss the establishment of Jatropha plantation, please let me know if you have a date in mind that would suit you.

It would be useful for us if you could give us some information regarding your proposed project. Please email me at elliot.higgins@sabahseeds.com.

I will look forward to hearing from you.

 

Kind regards,

Elliot Higgins

 

Dear Mr. Higgins

Thanks for reply, details are posted on your given email. Looking forward to see you in August at MK.

With Best Regards

Asif Saleem Shah

All Jatropha seeds in Africa and Asia are practically the same - any initial difference in performance is likely to be due the condition of the seed before planting. If someone ask a premium for a high performing seed/plant - don't beleive it, they are telling lies - high performance at this stage of plant development is likely to be due to other factors (soil nutrition and water) rather than genetics. contact me if you need more information - though i generally only deal with very large plantations

 

You are perfectly right and on spot of this stereo-type issue. I'd already mentioned somewhere in this biodieselnow.com forum than all Jatropha Curcus seeds & plants which are particularly comes under Jatropha Curcus-L variety all are same, doesn't matter which country they originated or imported. Difference & rate of germination is only affected by proper way of developing nursery & how old & new seeds are harvested, if they are fresh, germination rate will be more, if they are harvested few months back than germination rate will go down.

 

Performance & growth depends upon the way you look after the plantation, if you work hard, ( have proper irrigation & fertilizer application ) they will grow fast and gives good yields, if you leave them on their own on natural forces, than results will be not that attractive. According to my own plantation observation & research by so many sources, genetically no difference in seeds, they all are similar in plant structure, leaves & colour. All these companies are doing sales gimps, so new people will purchased their seed on premier rates.

 

dear sir

thanks for your information about JATROPHA i am interested in more information on it to plan its cultivation. please provide me your contact details or note my cell no n email.

 

I AM FROM KARACHI.

saquib80@hotmail.com
info@bsstechnologies.net

03009257459

saquib

Yes, you can always contact me by email

askhagga@yahoo.com

Dear All Members

This particular message is update of my posting on 13^th November 2008 on same forum in which I mentioned that trial of Jatropha Curcus plantation was underway at my small agriculture farm near Mian Channu, 90-kms from Multan towards Lahore.

Today after 9 months, here are the results with prove of pictures. Followings are few facts about plantation.

 

1. JC seeds were imported from Philippines, Malaysia & Thailand.

2. All seeds were from species of Jatropha Curcus – L according to our best source.

3. Six weeks old nursery was plantation is 2 x 2 meters (6 x 6 ft).

4. Plants height is almost 5 ½ to 6 ft at the age of 10 months.

5. Water was given to plants after every 15 days. (Irrigation)

6. 100 grams of DAP & 2 kg of NP (Nitro Phosphate) per plant in last 8 months.

 

Please feel free if you any have questions to fire. I’ll be glad to answer and please let me know if I’d done any mistake. Thx

 

With Best Kind Regards

Asif Saleem Shah

Nice looking plantation you have Asif.  Someone is taking alot of pride in their work!

I have a few questions if you dont mind.

What type of soil?

What is the ave rainfall in the area?

What was the ave rainfall over the test period?

How much irregation/plant/15 days?

What is the normal crop in the area?

Thanks for appreciation, answers to your questions are

 

1. What type of soil?

80% clay and 20% sandy soil, best agriculture soil in southern Punjab, Pakistan.

 

2. What is the ave rainfall in the area? & 3.What was the ave rainfall over the test period?

Average rainfall depends upon monsoon, last year we planted tress after monsoon and this year rain is going to start next week but average rainfall is our area is not more than 400 to 500 mm annually.

 

4. How much irregation/plant/15 days?

In this part of world, we’d canal water irrigation system, I didn’t measure the exact quantity of water but we did give lot of water, infact we flooded the plants.

 

5. What is the normal crop in the area?

Normal crops are Wheat, Rice, Corn and Cotton.

 

Mentioned before this area and land is not perfect candidate for Jatropha Curcus plantation because of Fuel vs Food issue, we’d just planted these trees to have our own trial as well as to develop nursery and than move to our main plantation area of 270 acres of land, which is mainly sandy looms, very marginal land, no cash crops, less water.

 

With Best Kind Regards

Asif Saleem Shah

Asif Saleem Shah

   best agriculture soil in southern Punjab, Pakistan.

  It seems that ya'll have lots of river water irrigation, dry clime but plenty of flowing water. This is the recipe for very high argiculture production, such as California and Lima. I was fooling around on Google Earth and you can see the massive rivers watershed you are referring to. I could imagine that this area could be the breadbasket of alot of area.

Do you know how deep the ground water typically is?

 

Yes, Indeed we had lot of water in canals & rivers. Southern Punjab is breadbasket for atleast 50% of Pakistani population. Punjab is land of five rivers and mega distribution of canals system. Groundwater depends upon how much away you are from river, typically in between 10ft to 50 ft.

Asif Saleem Shah

  Mentioned before this area and land is not perfect candidate for Jatropha Curcus plantation because of Fuel vs Food issue, 

  

Yes, I would hate for a place that is so in need of serious economic growth to spend precious time, energy, water and tilled land on something as unproductive as most biofuel projects. So I propose that you consider another avenue... Biochar. Instead of burning your biomass, use it to produce massive amounts of fertile soils. Here is a nice video, here is another series of info on the topic.

 

Dear All Members

This is reference and update to my postings of 13th November 2008 & 6th Aug 2009. I'm glad to inform & share with all members that first fruiting of Jatropha Curcus is been observed at our trial plantation farm near Mian Channu, 90-kms from Multan towards Lahore, Plant age is almost 10 months, seed was imported from Malaysia.

With Best Kind Regards

Asif Saleem Shah

 

 

 

Dear All Members

This particular message is update of my posting on 13^th November 2008 & 6th Aug 2009 on same forum in which I mentioned about trial of Jatropha Curcus plantation was underway at my small agriculture farm near Mian Channu, 90-kms from Multan.

Today after almost one year, here are the results with prove of pictures. This particular variety is from Philippines. Please feel free if you any have questions to fire.

 

With Best Kind Regards

Asif Saleem Shah

I AM WORKING ON JATROPHA PLANTATION SINCE 2008.

MY FIRST PLANTS ARE 2YOLD

I HAVE RAISED NURSERY OF JATROPHA 6 TIMES UPTIL NOW.

I HAVE DATA OF FERTILISERS REQUIRED, MICRONUTRIENTS, PLANT PROTECTION MEASURES, SEED RAISING PRECAUTIONS, PLANT PRUNING PATTERNS ETC. ( RESEARCH IN PROGRESS )

MORE THAN 10,000 PLANTS HAVE BEEN RAISED IN THIS AREA VIA MY TEAM

I HAVE RUN 4 HP DIESEL ENGINE PURELY ON JATROPHA OIL VERY SUCCESSFULLY ON 18-04-2010. ( CAN DEMONSTRATE ON DEMAND )

NOW WORKING ON JATROPHA OIL KITS FOR TRACTORS AND CARS.

ASIM BAHAWALPUR PAKISTAN

ADDRESS :23/A GULBERG ROAD MODEL TOWN A. BAHAWALPUR. PAKISTAN

CELL 0308 499 4444

           0321 680 4603

           0622 875838

 

 

I shall collect the jatropha fruits from my trees by end of JULY 2010.

They are healthy and the bunches are rich in number.

Dear Mr,Joher surti

         I have the australian jatropha nursury if any one want to buy the plants do contact me

Regards,

Muzammil Hussain

03336993933