Question from Mumbai, India.

Dear sir,
I read your posts in bio- diesel forum and came to know about your
'say no to jatropha' initiative. It is really shocking to observe that
jatropha plantation is being promoted at the govt. level and given
huge subsidies(waste of public money) ignoring the harmful effects of
jatropha on human health and ecosystem in general.

I hereby request you to send me as much material in text and research
papers regarding toxicity caused by jatropha(plant and products
derived from it) and ecological imbalance it is going to cause due to
large scale plantations, via email as possible and oblige. I can
assure you that this information will be used only for creating
awareness among potential farmers and if possible among policy makers
in the govt.

Regards.

Sincerely yours,

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My comments: Thanks for your message and interest. You can get my
contributions on negative aspects of Jatropha from these sources.

1. Botanical.com

http://botanical.com/site/column_poudhia/poudhia_index.html

2. Ecoport

http://ecoport.org/ep?Plant=1297&entityType=PL****&entityDisplayCategory=eArticl\
es

3. My homepage

http://www.pankajoudhia.com

4. CGBD (Offline Database on Chhattisgarh Biodiversity)

Recent Publications in CGBD

http://cgbiodiversity.blogspot.com/2009/01/research-publications-in-cgbd.html

Films, lectures and Hindi articles are also in CGBD.

These days I am compiling over 20,000 pictures showing negative
aspects of Jatropha. My wish is to present it online in form of slide
show.

For updates keep visiting "Say No To Jatropha" yahoogroup.


regards

Pankaj Oudhia