With more than 900,000 hectares, Asia has by far the largest acreage of Jatropha cultivation currently under management worldwide. Key finding are:
- The largest Jatropha plantations exist in India, Myanmar, China and Indonesia, with each country having more than 50,000 ha under cultivation today.
- The greatest projects are government initiated; they include pro-poor support schemes in India to rehabilitate waste lands, village programs in Lao and Myanmar as well as plantations developed by the largest national oil companies in China.
- It is expected that large investments will take place in the future; the total acreage will increase according to experts‘ estimates up to 9.2 million hectares in the next 7 years.
According to GEXSI, the expected acreage of Jatropha cultivation in Asia is expected to increase of over 9 million ha by 2015.
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