This report is the result of an integrated approach to the potentials that may be delivered from the cultivation of Jatropha Curcas L in Thailand, in support of the Kingdoms Bio Diesel fuel security policies. It has been performed at the request of the DEDE (Government of Thailand Department of Energy Efficiency) and sponsored by the Government of UK DTi (Department of Trade and Industry). D1 Oils Plc has facilitated the process of reporting with the assistance of various educational institutions, government of Thailand ministries and departments, The Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Communities, and the Thai Federation of Industry.

The opinion expressed in the report is that under well-managed circumstances the massive cultivation of Jatropha Curcas L in Thailand will have social, economic and environmental benefits for the country; contributing to both fuel and food security.

The report outlines pro poverty reduction policies that will have a positive influence upon agricultural communities, technology transfer, banking service build up in rural locations and inclusion with both middle level and executive industry/enterprise activities. Further, the report illustrates that rural communities may be viewed as major contributors to the fuel economy of the Kingdom; and that a system of agricultural extension to industry process’s should be established that embraces an end to end solution for the harvest values of Jatropha Curcas L, inclusive of the deliver of Bio Diesel and additional value added products at a sustainable level.

The North East of Thailand has been assessed as the most desirable location for a Jatropha Curcas L Agriculture to Bio Diesel and for a “value adding” industry platform. Additional areas of Thailand have been evaluated for Jatropha Curcas L Agriculture and discovered to be suitable.

In order to achieve the goals of the Government of Thailand for the production of Bio Diesel there is a need for the systematic and scientific propagation of Jatropha Curcas L for an extended period. This agricultural extension should be carried out on public land under the supervision of a variety of interlinked government and international departments. Cultivators and cultivation areas will need to be registered and linked into forward bank planning activities that embrace the Kyoto Protocols Clean Development Mechanism, as this will give rise to the acquisition of Carbon Credits when fuel substitution is established.

The report illustrates that there is a comprehensive need for collaborative development policy that embraces decentralised agricultural extension and decentralised Bio Diesel production to market. The complete solution requires the establishing of partnership between the National Agricultural Extension Services, Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Communities, The National Petroleum Marketing Group PTT and an end to end commercial development solutions provider for JCL Agriculture to Industry, possessed of the ability to promote agricultural extension, decentralised Bio Diesel production to market, and to accommodate new value adding industry for the processing of JCL biological residues.

It is anticipated that the report may be used to form a template for the ASEAN regions desire to promote fuel security programs from the cultivation of Jatropha Curcas. It is observed that the policies that have been adopted by Thailand are frequently complimented within the ASEAN community; the process of research has illustrated that there is a high degree of policy synergy between the neighbouring countries of Thailand. This synergy is reflected most within the over arching policies of the GMS (Greater Mekong Sub region) as related to the promotion of economic corridors linking Thailand with Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Southern provinces of the PRC.

Various parties to establish policy initiatives and support collaborative business planning strategies that will lead to comprehensive decentralised JCL Agriculture to Industry programs throughout the ASEAN region 2006-2012; designed to meet and exceed the bio diesel targets of the national governments, may use the report.