Message from USA

Planting 30 million hectares of Jatropha curcas sounds like a
disaster waiting to take off!!!

With Australia describing it as invasive and Hawaii PIER ’ s risk
assessment rejecting it; I hope this plant never crosses the ocean to
North America.

With a wide range of tolerances including frost and arid conditions,
could they actually confine it and guarantee no escape?

Unlikely

As someone who works with disturbance areas like roadsides, I truly
hope they reconsider. This plant has characteristics of invasives
that cost us greatly in parklands, farmlands, wetlands, woodlands, and
more. I suspect that economics will win; but we will all pay the
price eventually.

Sincerely,

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My comments: Thanks for your support. Researchers are aware of Bare
facts about Jatropha but planners are ignoring their warnings. In
India, after all warnings planners planted Jatropha and now the
stories of Jatropha failure, frauds and scams are coming in surface.
Few people enjoyed (and enjoying) from hard earnings of common public.


regards

Pankaj Oudhia