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Sustainable fuel and Development

Our initial project in Ghana will take approximately 412,000 Metric Tons of CO2 out of the air each year. The technology is simple. Land, water, sunlight, nutrients and CO2 are the inputs. Through photosynthesis, the outputs are oil bearing seeds and oxygen. We estimate that our machinery working on the farm and logistics, return 20% of the CO2 taken in by the plants, to the atmosphere. So our Ghana plantation will:

Remove 412,000MT of CO2 out of the air each year
Provide jobs for over 1000 people in rural communities in Ghana
Bring into use, land in a semi arid area, which is not suited to food agriculture
Reduce the use of fuels produced from crude oil

The average 35 Miles per gallon car running 15,000 miles per year uses 428 gallons of Fuel. It is widely accepted that 1 gallon of gasoline creates approximately 20lbs of CO2. Each Jatropha Tree absorbs approximately .006MT (14lbs) of CO2 annually. To have a carbon neutral average car, you would need to plant 580 trees.
We have made a good start. Our pilot farm of 100 Hectares has almost 100,000 trees. Our first plantation is being developed to grow 64,000,000 trees.
You can support or invest in the expansion of the growth of Jatropha.

Opportunities exist at three levels :

Contribute to our planting to offset carbon emissions. For every $5 contribution we will plant an additional tree.
Set up your own Jatropha farm on leased land well suited to Jatropha and not used for food production.
Set up a Joint Venture with us, to establish a well managed Jatropha cultivation operation. We are in a position to form joint ventures based on land areas from 10,000 to 100,000 Hectares.

Jatropha Africa utilizes marginal land. We do not displace agriculture for the production of food. We have long term profit sharing agreements with the people of the villages where we are expanding our Jatropha cultivation activities. We respect their traditions and provide jobs, which has resulted in us being respected as a good employer.
Our management team is experienced in establishing and developing business activities in Ghana and the United Kingdom, and in exporting seeds to the US and Europe.
For more information, please contact : info@jatrophaafrica.com