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Know about Pungai tree ( Pongama Pinnata or karanj)

Fast growing tree can grow upto 40 feet. Spreading canopy and moderate shade,
grows in full sun

Leaf fall April and December seed fall Fen to May

Recommended as green belt development plant by CPCB. It can be used as shield

green belt around waste processing centres and disposal sites.

Growth pattern 50 to 60 cm in first year

Pungai is a native tree to India

Do you know that most of the trees that survived vardah cyclone( 2016 Chennai)are
native trees of IndiaAlmost 1 lakh out of 4.5 total trees in Chennai were uprooted
in one single day due to wind speed of more than 130 km/h.

Trees Planted at right places act as

Wind breakers, flood channalizers, carbon sinks, dust and noise filters..

If you take care of pungai maram for first two to three years it can help you and
your family for next 80 to 100 years
From pungai seeds you can get 25 % oil and 75 % punnakku ( Oil cake). Both can
fetch revenue and in future it will have more value as the oil can be converted into
biodiesel..

Pungai adds nitrogen to soil and enriches it.

How to plant Pungai tree.

If you have 2 feet high saplings,,,plant it in pit of size 2 X 2 X 2.

Fill the pit wit manure and red sand mixure . add some sand in case of clay soil

Water the plants with 2 litres of water per week. Most importantly, it can accept
water from your kitchen or hand wash helping you to reuse water. First two to three
years ensure good water availability. From 4th to 6th year it will start yielding the
seeds.

Since it has some bitterness, cattle will not touch it

Gap required is 10 feet between each tree. We can get 8 to 10 litres of oil and 25 to
30 kg of oil cake from every tree per annum.

When the tree is 1 m heigh, start pruning and the new branch will come rapidly with
4 or 5 branch ways. Cut every branch leaving atleast 6 to 10 leaves so that we get
ultimately 30 to 40 branches per tree.

If branch starts growing downwards, prune it. Cut also the dry ones. Cut branches
that grow from stem near the ground so that we can get a neat canopy shape where
we can go and pick up seeds.

For putting our organic fertilizer dug a pit of 50 to 100 mm size around the root, put
the 1 kg compost and cover the same with soil and slightly compact it.

If we nominate 100 ft X 100 ft place in workshop/factory/colony or even in rural

community, we can easily get around 100 trees and almost 750 to 1000 litres of
biodiesel and 2.5 to 3.0 tons of oil cake along with carbon utilization

With oil requirements of 60 litres/forklift/4 hrs of operation/week, and with a blend of

20 %, we can run one forklift per annum with the biodiesel and replace fossil fuel
consumption.

References

Central Pollution Control Board Publications

Wikipedia

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore