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03/07/13 3:44 PM
Dr. Kevin Schewe, VIASPACE chairman, commented: "I have personally toured and experienced our California GKG site. I can bear witness that Giant King Grass is an impressive, high yield biomass crop and its shear density of growth is amazing. For example, when you walk into the middle of our GKG plot in California where the grass has matured in height, the sunlight nearly disappears. Like me, our potential customers will easily see and identify with the continuously renewable benefit that this crop can provide."
03/07/13 3:55 PM
Question 4: The speed at which Giant King Grass matures as regrowth is astounding. What is the basis for this amazing increase in productivity in the second and succeeding years?
Answer: We at VIASPACE call Giant King Grass "the new biomass for green energy". Giant King Grass is a very fast growing, high yield, hybrid grass that is neither genetically modified nor invasive. It grows in a variety of soil conditions and does not compete with food crops. Giant King Grass is perennial and it is a short rotation crop that can be harvested in the first year, compared to other crops that have much lower yields and cannot be harvested until their second, third or fourth year of growth. Regrowth is significantly faster than the initial harvest because the plant establishes an excellent root system. Once GKG has been established, it can be harvested at 3-5 feet tall for biogas production every 45 to 60 days. For other applications such as power plant fuel, pellets or biofuels, it is harvested at 13-16 feet tall every 150-180 days. This high rate of growth of GKG can provide a continual supply of biomass year-round. With competitive energy characteristics combined with multiple harvests per year, the energy output or energy yield of GKG per acre per year is much higher than other grasses. As a result, GKG cultivation offers material productivity benefits and therefore lower cost biomass for energy production, biofuels and biomaterials.
So how many months is 180 days? That's six months and only after it is established after the first year.
Who calls gkg the next new biomass? How about some one else like BP, or say a real customer or expert?
We at VIASPACE call Giant King Grass "the new biomass for green energy"
03/07/13 4:07 PM
Question 9: On February 20, you announced that VIASPACE has a contract with Agricorp and is growing Giant King Grass in Nicaragua. What is different about this relationship and why should investors take notice?
Answer: VIASPACE has been working on its business relationship with Agricorp under a confidentiality agreement since July of 2011. Agricorp is a subsidiary of Grain Hill which is a diversified agro-industrial business group with revenues of $300 million per year with operations in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and El Salvador. For example, Grain Hill/Agricorp is the largest rice company in Nicaragua with 65% of the market share there. Agricorp is the "real deal" with regards to their financial strength, their regional outreach, their motivation to generate their own bioelectricity and their demonstrated agricultural expertise. Giant King Grass seedlings were shipped from our California nursery and planted on part of a 10,000 acre Agricorp farm near Lake Nicaragua. An Agricorp rice mill is co-located on that farm which would also be the site of a co-located biomass electric power plant. Giant King Grass will be the primary fuel for the power plant and supplemented by rice husks as the rice is routinely harvested. In parallel with the Giant King Grass biomass plantation, VIASPACE and Agricorp will also partner together in the power plant development. This is the perfect business relationship that we have been seeking in that we are not only providing the high-yielding biomass fuel but we are also sharing in the power plant development and its continuous revenue stream. The Agricorp team understands agriculture and we are excited to grow Giant King Grass with them because we believe that they will rapidly discover and experience the economic benefits of GKG as world's highest yielding biomass platform and the revenues that can be generated. Investors should recognize that we have a financially strong and able partner in Agricorp and our relationship with them has been revealed at a time when we are both ready to move forward with our plans to establish a premier Central America biomass power plant and then continue to grow our business with them from there.
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