Biodiesel park near Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar- Cuttack- Puri, BioTech, Pharma, Jatropha, Khordha December 6th. 2007, 6:30pmFollowing is an excerpt from a report in Telegraph.
First an IT park, followed by a bio-tech one and now Orissa is set for a bio-diesel space.
Chief secretary Ajit Kumar Tripathy in the capital city today flagged of the park project, which would boast of a research laboratory, as well as a plantation area with jatropha, karanja and castor plants — all of which produce oil.
… the chief secretary added that the construction work has been given to the Majhighariani Institute of Technology and Science Group, which has already started jatropha curcas plantation on 50,000 hectare in 10 Orissa districts.
“The group, in association with the government and banks, would set up the park. A minimum 100 acre is required and we have identified the land near Deras agricultural farm on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar,” said Balkrishna Panda, the chairman of the group.
He added that 10-odd acre would be required for the plantation alone. Besides, the park will be used for research, publicity and training of farmers on bio-diesel. In addition to it, the park would have one-stop solutions for fertiliser, spice and tissue culture issues, besides units of bio-diesel production plants
“It will be on public-private partnership (PPP) mode and will provide employment to 10 million in the state directly or indirectly,” said Panda.
Several banks, including Andhra Bank, Bank of Baroda, UCO bank and the Orissa State Cooperative Bank, have shown interest in the project. Indian Oil has also agreed to a marketing tie-up.
Jatropa is not a new concept for Orissa farmers. It often is planted on boundaries to protect the crop from stray cattle. But, its plantation on commercial basis in unproductive land is a new one.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:41 am
Sir,
I am serving as Farm Guidance Instructor in N.C.U.I.Project Balasore.I have completed my BSc.Ag fromOUAT. I need address of jatropha farm so that i can make necessary arrangement of beneficiary visit to those farm and motivate the farmers for jatropha cultivation.
Thanking you
regards
Soumyajeet Swain
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April 16th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Dear sir,
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Thanking you,
yours sinsierly,
Abhishek Mohapatra
January 19th, 2010 at 7:02 am
sir
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