HLK Biotech Holding Group, Inc. (AMHD)

[alexindef]

Jatropha (Wikipedia):
"The plant can grow in wastelands, fertilises the soil that it grows in, and yields more than four times as much fuel per hectare as soybean; more than ten times that of corn. A hectare of jatropha produces 1,892 liters of fuel (about 6.5 barrels per acre)."

Summary:
- no genetic engineering, million of years of evolution perfected it
- no herbicides needed to fight weeds, because jatropia is a weed
- no pesticides needed, naturally bug resistent
- grows in poor soil
- enriches soil automatically, only enhancing bio mass, not depleting it because the soil is not being attacked with poisons (unlike in corn production) - leaves go into ground
- no health risk in terms of cancer causing carcinogens
- no chemicals - will not kill the fish in neighboring ponds (LOL), streams, and lakes
- TEN times as productive as corn!
- FOUR times as productive as soy beans!
- 60% from seeds become diesel after some filtering and 40% can be used to generate power from
- doesn't require distillation (unlike ethanol which requires a ton of energy just distilling it)

Jatropha in India:
http://www.jatrophabiodiesel.org/
"In recent years, the Indian government has shown a major interest in Jatropha, and alongside other developing countries, a number of international groups are now sharing this interest. There have been substantial political and social pressures to promote the growing of such crops (in particular Jatropha curcas) in India, as a means of economic empowerment, social upliftment and poverty alleviation within marginalized communities."

Jatropha in Africa:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/world/africa/09biofuel.html?ex=1347076800&en=b8d10edc967799c8&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Jatropha originated in Central America and is believed to have been spread around the world by Portuguese explorers. In Mali, a landlocked former French colony, it has been used for decades by farmers as a living fence that keeps grazing animals off their fields — the smell and the taste of the plant repel grazing animals — and a guard against erosion, keeping rich topsoil from being blown away by the harsh Sahel winds. The Royal Tropical Institute, a nonprofit research institution in Amsterdam that has been working to develop jatropha as a commercial biofuel, estimates that there are 22,000 linear kilometers, or more than 13,000 miles, of the bush in Mali.

Poor farmers living on a wide band of land on both sides of the equator are planting it on millions of acres, hoping to turn their rockiest, most unproductive fields into a biofuel boom. They are spurred on by big oil companies like BP and the British biofuel giant D1 Oils, which are investing millions of dollars in jatropha cultivation.

Jatropha in China:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/24/content_4595091.htm

China,The world’s second-biggest energy user may spend 1.5 trillion yuan ($192 billion) in the next 15 years to increase the use of renewable resources to cut the nation’s reliance on oil.It , will use 32.9 million acres (13.3 million hectares) of forestland, equivalent to the size of England, to grow trees that can be harvested to make bio-fuels.
http://citizenxpress.com/blog/view/739/13_3m_hectares_of_jatropha_forest_for_biodiesel_/