Allied Carbon launches jatropha contract farming in India

Tokyo-based biofuel company Allied Carbon Solutions has launched a contract farming program for jatropha cultivation in Tamil Nadu, south India. The company’s Indian subsidiary, ACS Alternative Fuels will set up a jatropha oil mill in Aruppukottai, Tamil Nadu, with a capacity to produce about 10 tons of crude jatropha oil daily and the company plans to export the biofuel to the United States and Japan for which it has already received orders. (April 26, 2010)