The Congress alleged that owing to indiscreet decision of Chief Minister Raman Singh, BJP Government in the State has exhausted over Rs 1,000 crore of tax payer's money for producing diesel from jatropha but the scheme is completely failed to yield its desired result. In a Press statement here on …
PARUL CHANDRA NEW DELHI After what seems a failed experiment of Tughlaqian proportions that saw the Indian railways spending several lakhs on planting crores of jatropha trees along its railway tracks, the ministry appears to have junked jatropha for producing bio-fuel. Having realised the financial and practical unavailability of extracting …
In line with the National Biofuel Policy approved by the Centre last December, the Delhi government is identifying wastelands and forestland at present on the city
Pune An armed forces study has shown that children are susceptible to jatropha poisoning if they ingest the seeds of the plant. Specialists from the Department of Paediatrics and Neonatology at Command Hospital Pune and Military Hospital at Ahmednagar conducted the study that was reported in the January issue of …
New Delhi: Soon, one might see cultivation of plants like Jatropha and Karanja for biofuel production in the Ridge area and along all major drains in the city. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday said that the government would study the viability of the proposal to ensure that no agricultural …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi January 5, 2010, 0:55 IST New government policy on biofuels may consider financial incentives. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the country
Viable biofuels could end up reducing land for crops The national biofuel policy announced by the government last week is well-intentioned but is not really practical. It aims for achieving a 20 per cent blending of biofuels with petrol as well as diesel by 2017. Given that even the 5 …
JAIPUR: Experts attending a zonal consultation on bio-fuel for semi-arid eastern plains of Rajasthan here over the week-end called for evolving a balance between the commercial production of bio-fuel bearing plants such as jatropha and the use of common land, crucial for the rural poor, for their cultivation. The consultation
More than 80 students of Government Primary School, Chundipur, 12 km from here, were taken ill due to food poisoning and were rushed to a trauma centre. The school authorities could not prepare the mid-day meal today as there was no water for cooking and the kids were tempted to …
Parents blame midday meal More than 40 children of the Babugarh area here were rushed to a hospital after they complained of suffocation and nausea, an official said on Sunday. The kids were rushed to a government hospital at Hapur on Saturday evening, said sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Mahendra Prasad.He said …
Sanjib Kumar Roy ISLAND PURA: ABDUL KALAM' S VISION FOR ANDAMANSEXTENDING his dream plan of PURA (providing urban amenities in rural areas) to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam said that he visualised Island PURA for the welfare and better employment opportunities of islanders. Dr …
Emami Biotech, a part of the Rs 2,000-crore Emami Group, will invest Rs 400 crore in a plantation project over five years in Oromia in Ethiopia. The company will engage in plantation of biofuel crops (jatropha) and other edible and non-edible oil seeds on 100,000 acres allotted to Emami Biotech …
Customs duty cut from 7.5% to 2.5%. THE FINANCE minister has announced that Customs duty on bio-diesel will be reduced from 7.5 per cent to 2.5 per cent and duty-paid high-speed diesel blended with up to 20 per cent bio-diesel will be fully exempted from excise duties. This, say industry …
Suman Sahai THE BIOFUEL craze was started by the United States. It is rooted in the US politics of keeping corn prices high in the Midwest and its refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Huge amounts of genetically-engineered (GE) American corn was stockpiling because the …
BHUBANESWAR: As the oil from the jatropha seeds is now used for making biodiesel, the State Government has decided to take up jatropha plantation on a massive scale under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). The Panchayati Raj Department, the nodal agency for implementation of the NREGS, has been …
Commercial production unlikely in next two years. The Centre sees potential to cultivate jatropha in 13 million hectares with further cultivation possible in another four million hectares M.R. Subramani Chennai, April 17 In April 2003, a Planning Commission committee recommended various measures to replace 20 per cent of the country
Gurgaon: Nearly 12 kids were taken to various hospitals of the city after they consumed seeds of Jetropa plant here today. Children of Basai Enclave colony were playing in the garden of their colony and swallowed the seeds by mistake. They are between seven and 10 years of age. The …
Mangalore, DH News Service: Though several companies grow jatropa on large scale, farmers are still sceptical over its market. There is a need to remove the suspicion among them.
Effect of auxins (IAA, IBA and NAA) and vitamin B1 (thiamine) on rooting response of branch cuttings and air-layers of Jatropha curcas during spring and monsoon seasons was studied. Spring season was found best for clonal multiplication of genetically superior material in jatropha. Cuttings treated with 600 and 800 mg …
