Implementing a Sustainable “Food and Fuel” System in Jatropha Plantation Management Thomro Biofuels Experience By Prof. Thomson Sinkala Managing Director, Thomro Biofuels [email protected], www.thomrobiofuels.com Presented at the South at the Steering Wheel workshop on IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY IN LAND INVESTMENT FOR BIOENERGY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Held at Naturvårdsverket (Swedish EPA), Stockholm, Sweden 29 May 2012 1
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Implementing a Sustainable “ Food and Fuel ” System in Jatropha Plantation Management
Presented as part of the seminar: South at the Steering Wheel - Improving sustainability in land investment for bioenergy in sub-Saharan Africa
29th May 2012, 08:00 - 17:30
Naturvårdsverket (Swedish EPA), Stockholm, Sweden
Speaker: Professor Thomson Sinkala, Thomro farms (Zambia) and Univ. of Zambia
In his development of Jatropha based bioenergy, Professor Thomson Sinkala mentions the following issues as best solved in a system, where the different parts contribute to a commercial and sustainable whole in an integrated fashion rather than posing as individual risks for the investor:
Pest and Weed management Pollination Improvement Plant Fertilizer Field fencing Livestock and poultry feed (for the dry season)
In a similar way to Per Strömberg, at the same seminar, Thomson Sinkala argues that managing each challenge in a creative and adaptive way could mean profit both environmentally as well as commercially.
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Implementing a Sustainable “Food and Fuel” System in Jatropha Plantation Management
Thomro Biofuels Experience
By
Prof. Thomson Sinkala Managing Director, Thomro Biofuels
Chickens, along with other poultry such as guinea fowl, are natural predators and will eat a large number of insects. http://www.smallstock.info/info/health/tick-poultry.htm
Saves costs
and
Environment
Food
and
Income
Poultry
Tephrosia Vogelii
Tephrosia can be used with garden vegetables, fruits and field crops, to control termites, ants, beetles, aphids, red spider mites, cutworms, various bugs and weevils, stalk borers, flies, etc.
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Fertilizer Supply
1.0 tonne of dry seed of Jatropha per ha removes 14.3–34.3 kg of N, 0.7–7.0 kg of P, and 14.3–31.6 kg of K
SWEET SORGHUM (fodder) Livestock/Poultry feed in dry season (DS)
Bioethanol
Electricity
SOY BEANS (Soy cake) Livestock/Poultry feed - DS
Edible oil/biodiesel
MAIZE(Maize bran) Livestock/Poultry feed - DS
Mealie meal
JATROPHA PRODUCTS
Biodiesel Target product 2000
Biogas
Soap
Organic fertilizer
TOTAL = 8800
The Thomro plantation management is therefore a win-win approach
Weed
Management
+$
Pollination
+$
Pest /Disease
Management
+$
Fertilizer Supply
+$
Harvest
&
Process
-$
Product
+$
This makes Jatropha products significantly competitive 22
OBSERVATIONS
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We can see that in trying to address Jatropha management issues to make its products competitive, we consequently end up with outputs such as: • Bioethanol / biodiesel;
• More money earned from Jatropha management products
than from Jatropha products themselves;
• Money made way before starting to reap from Jatropha.
Other than adding Jatropha to the familiar food crops, and processing of biofuels, the trade of keeping goats, chickens and bees is well known.
CONCLUSIONS
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The above win-win example shows that biofuels and agricultural industries can be developed to be supportive of each other.
For biofuels to expand, Governments need to put in place conducive policies and strategies that promote local uptakes / participation in biofuels industry.
Drought resistant feedstocks/varieties should be promoted/developed to minimize water demand and widen the scope of participation in the biofuels industry.
The global biofuels market is enormous, and projected demand will not be met for a long time to come.