Thanks Dr.Reddy for your message.

I am glad to know that now Jatropha promoters are accepting the bare facts about
exotic Jatropha. We are saying from beginning that Jatropha requires much care
for good production and if required care is provided, it is far less profitable
than traditional crops. Jatropha is good for planting material sellers not for
the common farmers.

You have written that "convincing the farmers to take up
Jatropha on their waste and barren lands and asking them to
do", it seems that you are not aware of common farmers and their conditions. In
India farmers are efficient enough to utilise each and every piece of their
land. Land declared as wasteland by experts are useful land for common farmers.
I am talking about common farmers not rich farmers.

You better know rich farmers are doing agriculture to make black money white. I
am shocked and surprised that Hyderabad based ICRISAT is NOT conducting Jatropha
experiments with poor farmers. ICRISAT is promoting it as grand success. I was
in Zaheerabad few years back and know about ground realities. I suggest the
funding agencies to either stop funding ICRISAT for conducting research for rich
farmers or write clearly that this organisation is for rich farmers.

Dr. Reddy, Jatropha promotion may make your company rich but please think of
poor Indian farmers and also farmers around the world. In India farmers are
committing suicide. Seeing the Jatropha promotion in India in large scale,
experts are in worry that this promotion will lead to another phase of suicide.
Thousands of children have already reached to hospital due to Jatropha
poisoning. Five children have lost their precious lives. What else Jatropha
promoters want to do to punish common Indians and farmers?

Pankaj Oudhia

--- In jatropha@..., Krishna Chalapathy Reddy <chalagene@...>
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> Dear Pankaj,
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> Thanks for the sharing lot of information along with photos of Jatropha to the
group. I am working in Mission Biofuels India Pvt, Mumbai and we have been
working on Jatropha for the past three years in five states (TN, KRN, MH, MP and
OR) we had tough time in convincing the farmers to take up Jatropha on their
waste and barren lands and asking them to do Agronomic practices in the Jatropha
fields to improve the Jatropha plants for optimum seed yield. Without minimum
Agronomic practices Jatropha will grow but it will not give fruits.
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> � Dr. K.�Chalapathy Reddy
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> --- On Sun, 7/26/09, Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoudhia@...> wrote:
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> From: Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoudhia@...>
> Subject: [jatropha] Status of Jatropha plantations in Indian state
Chhattisgarh.
> To: jatropha@...
> Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 5:41 AM
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