Study on Cultivation of Biofuel Crop Jatropha

Jatropha curcas Linn. is highly promoted biofuel crop which contains high amount of oil in its seeds which can be converted to biodiesel. Present paper confers details about survey carried out of farmers cultivating Jatropha. The objective was to study problems related to Jatropha cultiva- tion, to identify and describe the socio-economic characteristics of farmers growing Jatropha plant. A total of 200 farmers across four districts were in- terviewed using a set of structured and unstructured questions (questionnaire). Major problem about Jatro-pha cultivation was availability of market for selling seeds. Among farmers less accept-ability of Jatropha as biofuel crop was due to the delay in notifying, publicizing and ex-plaining the govern- ment bio-diesel policy.