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1. #1. Paulo Araujo, May 8th, 2008

   
   

   Dear Mr.Mike Lu
   i’m wondering if you can take a look at this project that i have and wish to implement in “Senador Eloi-RN” Brasil. i know that you are a very busy man,but i think this can be good for both of us and our country (the sucess of jatropha). Thank you very much.

   Dear Administrator (PROJECT THERE IS HOPE)

   Thanks for your attention concerning my project.

   First of all, I would like to introduce the project.

   1-) What do i need for sucess?

   I need financial help to implement this project,money to buy equipment
   (bean piller),i need to build a concrete court of 50 mts. by 50
   mts.and also to make an irrigation system (very simple,by dropping)
   which can improve the production in 80% (each tree can produce up to
   8.000 kg per hectare after the first year of growing) this means about
   2.000 lts. of biofuel per hectare.)this concrete court is to dry the
   beans before packing in bags of 60 kg.

   2-)i need to build a barn to stock the production (beans,corn,jatropha).
   All the technical support i will have from EMBRAPA (research company
   for agricultural development) all the seeds and follow up they will give me for free.

   3-) the beans and the corn will be planted between the trees of
   jatropha (in the corridors) the production will feed the farmers
   family and the rest will be sold and some of the profit divided among
   them.

   4-)all the plantation will be fertilized organically.(saving a lots of money)

   5-)the leftovers of the pilling (the beans and the corn) is going to
   feed the animals,here is very common to feed the goats,,cows with
   beans and corn shell/straw.

   6-)this process is very important because they depend on the animals
   milk (dayly)

   7-) a vegetable garden will be made for the families.

   8-)for your concern each tree can capture about 1,7 tons of CO2 of the air.

   9-)each hectare can be planted with 1.200 trees of jatropha.

   10-) the farm has about 240 acres, and will be planted about 280 thousand trees that will capture around 470 thousand tons of CO2 of the air. These carbon credits can be sold in the market generating income for the project.

   11-) all the production of jatropha is designated to the investor
   (here or abroad)we have a sea port here in Natal or Recife,that can transport to USA ,Europe, or Asia.

   12-) i intent to implant a social work with the farmers family
   (keeping the children at school as an obligation) giving them all the
   support (school material, monthly food basket, etc…

   13-)i don\’t have a partner yet,but i have feel people (ngos) from
   germany, Uk, which have demonstrate interest about it.

   14-) if you can connect me with some possible investors to help me,i
   will promisse that i will spread my project to other areas.all these
   people need is a little push, f we have to depend on our demagogic
   government, we are going nowhere because the bureaucracy to obtain
   financial aid.

   15-) i put it on paper the amount of money that i possibily need:

   a-) $ 5.000 for the equipment that peels beans and corn.

   b-) $ 10.000 for the irrigation system (needed in this region)

   c-) $ 5.000 for the cement court to dry up the beans and corn.

   d-) $ 20.000 for the construction of the barn to stock the production.

   e-) $ 5.000 for the repairing of the house on the farm, where a keeper

   will live with his family.

   f-) $ 10.000 to start-up the project (the production of jatropha
   starts about 6 months after planting, and the beans and corn about that
   too. this money is to secure all the structure,payments of the
   employees, food supply, electricity bill and the maintenance of the farm.

   g-) $ 2.000 for the rental of tractors to prepare the soil (cleanup and spread whitewash and organic fertilizer to enrich the soil.

   h-)no mechanical equipments will be needed (to purchase) because this type of plantation is picked by hand, but all we need is to buy straw baskets to harvest, which costs a little.

   i-) $ 5.000 for the fence surrounding the property.
   j-)total cost of the project ( $ 62.000 dollars)
   Obs. (Jatropha curcas l. is a tree that grows very fast and produces a rich oil that can be used by chemical industries (more than 400 ways o using) or to make biofuel.

   So my dear Administrator, if you can help make my dreams of a better
   world come through, may god will bless you, as a matter of fact i think
   you already are!!!

   Please keep contact. thank you very much.

   Paulo Araujo

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