Jatropha Curcas is a perennial plant commonly found in areas that are impervious to hostile environment like drought and marginal or inferior soil. While it is easily planted and grows quite rapidly, it exists for extended durations of up to 50 years generating seeds.

          Jatropha grows in the wild in many regions of India. A first-rate crop can be obtained with moderate endeavour. Depending on soil quality and rainfall, oil can be extracted from the Jatropha nuts after two to five years. The annual nut yield ranges from 0.5 to 12 tons. The kernels consist of about 60 percent oil; this oil can be transformed into bio diesel fuel through etherification. Medically it is used for diseases like cancer, piles, snakebite, paralysis, dropsy etc.

It has been most flourishing in the arid terrains of the tropics with an annual rainfall of 300-1000 mm. It is found chiefly at lower altitudes (0-500 m) in locales with average annual temperatures well above 20°C but can grow at higher altitudes too and endures slight frostiness. It grows on well-drained soils with superior aeration and is suitably adapted to subsidiary soils with minimal nutrient content.

The Botanical Features

It is a diminutive tree or shrub with soft grey bark. The bark discharges white and watery latex when cut. Generally, it grows between three and five meters tall, but can achieve a height of up to eight or ten meters under encouraging surroundings.

The Leaves and the Flowers

The leaves are large and green to pale-green, alternate to sub-opposite, three-to five-lobed with a spiral phyllotaxis. The petiole length ranges between 6-23 mm. The inflorescence is formed in the leaf axils.

Flowering transpires in the summer seasons and flowers are formed terminally and individually with female flowers generally larger to some extent. In circumstances where constant growth takes place, an imbalance of pistillate or staminate flower production results in a higher number of female flowers. If bee keeping is done along, more number of female flowers is grown by the plant. Consequently, additional female flowers give extra number of seeds.

The Fruits and the Seeds

Fruits are produced in winter when the shrub is leafless. Conversely, it may produce numerous crops during the year if soil moisture is advantageous and temperatures are adequately high. Each inflorescence yields a bunch of approximately ten or more ovoid fruits. Three valve, bi-valve cocci are formed after the seeds become fully grown and the fleshy exocarp dries.

The seeds mature when the capsule changes from green to yellow, after two to four months from fertilization. The blackish, thin shelled seeds are oblong and resemble small castor seeds. We take Jatropha seeds from trees matured for more than 30 years. Hence, our seeds offer you exceptional germination and yield. The seeds have lavish oil content and bestow brilliant results. Our superb quality, reasonably priced seeds have fine immunity against diseases as they withstand diverse environmental and biological assaults.