| Jatropa Curcas or locally known as Tuba
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| | alternative.
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| Bakod in our country has been used by our
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| | Since there are no much demand for tuba,
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| ancestors as a folkloric medicine for
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| | and very easy to propagate the plants, it
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| rheumatic pains, snake bites and also
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| | is cost effective. And imagine you can
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| insecticide. The leaves are used as
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| | extract 1 liter of oil from 3 kilos of
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| medicine for muscle ailments like
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| | seeds. There are no complicated processes
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| rheumatic pains. Simply by applying oil
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| | of extracting oil from the seeds unlike
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| on the leaves and heated by flames and
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| | coconut oil and alcohol bio diesel. Seeds
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| then applied to the skin on where the
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| | are sun dried and grounded to extract oil
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| ailments are. Although it has medicinal
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| | from it.
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| properties, the fruit and seed is not
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| | India now leads in the development of
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| edible and poisonous when ingested. The
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| | Jatropa curcas bio diesel fuel and now
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| leaves have anti-inflammatory properties
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| | people in our country are becoming aware
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| but toxic when excessively used
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| | with the help of media. And hoping that
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| internally. The pounded leaves when
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| | the government will push through in
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| pounded and made into a poultice can be
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| | promoting this bio diesel fuel. Research
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| used to aid in snakebites and also
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| | on jatropha biodiesel production in the
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| effective as an insecticide.
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| | Philippines is being undertaken by the
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| This shrub is erect and the leaves have a
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| | research and development facility in
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| usually somewhat rounded at the base,
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| | Diliman, Quezon City, of PNOC Energy
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| pointed at the tip and toothed at the
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| | Development Corp.
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| margins. Distributed though out the
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| | In India they are talking about planting
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| Philippines and neighboring Asian
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| | jatropha in as much as 33 million
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| countries.
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| | hectares of wasteland. The proponents
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| Although this is an important addition to
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| | envision plantations that can produce
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| the many medicinal herbs (which you can
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| | enough oil seeds from which biodiesel
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| also find some Philippine medical plants
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| | could be extracted to meet India's
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| in my site on the resource box link
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| | current diesel fuel requirement of 40
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| below), it is now been discovered as a
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| | million tons annually. Five tons of
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| good bio diesel alternative or additive.
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| | jatropha oil seeds can produce two tons
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| Very cost effective and very close to the
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| | of biodiesel.
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| chemical properties of (fossil) diesel
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| | The Indian proponents of jatropha
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| fuel we are using today. Unlike the
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| | biodiesel point out, among others, that
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| coconut oil or alcohol additive, which
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| | the plants "grow on poor degraded soils
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| are expensive to produce, Jatropa curcas
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| | and are able to ensure a reasonable
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| or tuba is much cheaper. A liter of pure
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| | production of seeds with very little
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| coco bio diesel would cost over P120 or
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| | inputs. [They are] not grazed by animals
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| US$2.50, which is why only small amounts
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| | [and are] highly pest and disease
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| of it can be mixed with regular diesel
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| | resistant.
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| fuel to produce a competitively priced
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