Company
Company
- JATROPOWER AG is a holding company domiciled in Baar, Switzerland. It is owned and financed privately by its Swiss promoters and its CEO.
- JATROPOWER AG owns 99.9% of the share capital of Jatropower Bio-trading Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore, India where R&D and seed production are concentrated. Jatropower India operates today 7 research and production farms around Coimbatore of between 1 and 10 acres each, of which 2 are on owned premises of Jatropower India.
Partnerships:
The Company is presently involved in the following partnerships:
Madagascar: with a private company having access to wasteland in the south of the country, establishing a jatropha plantation. The purpose of the collaboration is access to Jatropower’s elite genotypes, including XutaTM cultivars, exchange of cultivation methodologies and technical consultancy on processing of edible jatropha seeds.
Mexico: with a private company in Coastal Mexico, intensely connected with the use of edible jatropha as human food. The purpose of the collaboration is to assess Jatropower XutaTM cultivar in comparison to edible jatropha varieties in Mexico and exchange of experiences in the use of edible jatropha as human food.
