Jatropha oil again?
After being
silent for a while, I got triggered by the rising interest for Jatropha oil.
Not as a biofuel;
most of these ambitious projects failed, as I uncovered before.
There is a
more realistic approach to develop a business case for the use of Jatropha products on a
local scale.
This means
not only biofuels (as going to be used in safari diesel cars in e.g. Tanzania)
but also Jatropha soap being produced in Zimbabwe and exported to e.g. Germany.
This means
not only producing seedcake briquettes in stead of charcoal for fuel but also
seedcake as a fertilizer (https://jatropha.pro/seedcake-as-fertilizer/)
and actually again for soap production and eventually for cardboard production.
The Jatropha
market is merely hampered by several problems.
1. The ambitious business plans of big companies
were utterly unrealistic.
2. There was a story buzzing around
Jatropha that because the oil is poisonous, you could not use the seedcake in agriculture
and you could not use oil or seedcake in health products like soap.
3. The university of Katesart in Thailand proved already a long time ago that seedcake is a safe organic fertilizer and even better than chicken manure. See link for the complete study
There is a lot of anecdotical information that Jatropha soap works as an antibacterial treatment and a proper prevention for eczema .
5. So far I did not run into scientific studies
affirming the above mentioned claims, but still the soap is sold in the UK end Germany.
LET US TRY
TO REVIVE THE PRODUCTION OF JATROPHA PRODUCTS FOR THE SAKE OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES
IN AFRICA AND ASIA.
Find more scientific data on https://sites.google.com/view/jatropha-pro/homepage