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Leucaena Effect Agroforestry  Development is A New Profit Centered Paradigm The Approach

Leucaena Seeds Are Now Available For Planting This Season. CLICK HERE For Ordering Information.

The Unique Thing About Leucaena Based Ecoindustrial Development Is That It Is a Win-Win Scenario for Everyone. We Operate From The Premise That All Parties Have Validity And We Are Seeking For The One Point Of Mutual Advantage Where We Can All Work Together.

Tropical countries need a new crop for driving rural development. We need a way to develop industries in the small towns to prevent migration to urban areas. Let us take a look at what kind of crop we should select to drive economic development. The selection has to have the parameters below. Leucaena has most if not all of these parameters. We’ll look at them one by one to see how we can develop Leucaena based agro industries in your country.  Subscribe now to our free online Newsletter "Leucaena Development". leucaena@forestworld2050.com

Questions We Will Answer on the Forum

1.  How old should Leucaena be when used for livestock feed?

2.  Can Leucaena be made into hay?

3.  Can Leucaena be made into silage?

4.  What kind of protein level does Leucaena have?

5.  Have any tests been made on feeding Leucaena to livestock?

6.  How many tons of Leucaena can I make per hectare? 

7.  Is it feasible to make and sell commodity products like particleboard from Leucaena in the US marketplace if you are a small producer?

8.  How can I develop my own project with my present resources? 

9.  Are there building materials that can fill niche markets?

10.  How much capital investment is involved in a building materials plant?

11.  What about insulation, roofing felts?  When is the best time to plant Leucaena? 

12.  What kind of special equipment do I need to grow Leucaena?

13.  What kinds of fertilizers do I need?

14.  What can I do about the Leucaena Psyllid?

15.  W\hat other disease of Leucaena are there?

16.  Can Leucaena grow in poor soil?

17.  Can Leucaena grow in soybean land? Cotton land?

18.  How about planting Leucaena as a green manure crop?

19.  Do I drill the seed?

20.  How much could I make per hectare if there a locally available livestock feed plant?

21.  Is there a way to make a profit from Leucaena without going through a large scale high tech production facility?

22.  How many hectares of Leucaena are break even for me?

23.  How much time in the field compared to say cotton, does Leucaena take?

24.  Can I use Leucaena as a profit center if I raise livestock and want to process it through them?

25.  Can I broadcast Leucaena as a short term catch crop?

26.  What AgroResidues do you produce on your farm that you would like to have a market for?

27.  Why if Leucaena makes such good paper, hasn't anyone started making paper from Leucaena?

28.  What products could be made from combining Leucaena with rice straw? Wheat straw? Rice hulls?

29.  How much AgroResidues are burned everyday?

30.  What kinds of farming system do we need to stop burning our fields?

31.  Can Leucaena be grown in cold climates?

32.  What product are made from Leucaena?

33.  What market for Leucaena products are available right now?

34.  What about the Japanese market for separated Leucaena leaf meal?  Is there a way to open this up?

35.  I understand there is market for Leucaena for pulp. How can we get Leucaena pulped locally?

36.  What about international markets for Leucaena? How do I tap into local livestock feed markets?

37.  Can Leucaena be made into fuel briquettes?

38. Do Leucaena livestock feeds enable cattle to gain weight daily?

39.  What about Leucaena low tech livestock feed production? 

40.  What is the market potential for these?

41.  Have Leucaena livestock feeds already been made?

42.  How much does the seed cost per pound?

43.  How many hectares do I have to plant?

44.  Where will I get the seeds?

45.  Who can I call when I need help?

46.  Is there a growers group just for Leucaena growers?

47.  Did you know Leucaena may be used blended with AgroResidues for fuel briquettes?

48.  What are the possibility of developing a Leucaena Agroindustrial project in my country?

49.  What about using Leucaena to develop a livestock feed industry under $25000.

50. Does Leucaena make the best reforestation tree?

51.  How much equipment is needed to process and manufacture Leucaena for use as fuel briquettes?

52.  Can the whole plant or is it the leaves that are used?

53.  Are there any environmental constraints on making this product?

54.  Can a good natural fertilizer be made from Leucaena and agriculture residues?

55.   How rich is Leucaena/AgroResidues fertilizer?

56.  For producing a natural fertilizer, what kind of equipment will I need?

57.  Can I start a small scale natural fertilizer product development?

58.  Are there niche markets for this type of product?

59.  Are there any environmental constraints on making this product?

60.  What equipment is needed to produce fuel briquettes?

61.  What about hardboard/particle board?

62.  Are there any environmental constraints on making this product?

63.  What about packaging and bagging?

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN GROWING LEUCAENA

1. Why would you be interested in growing Leucaena?

2. If you decide to grow Leucaena, how many hectares would you be able to devote to it?

3. Would you grow Leucaena if it could use your present equipment?

4. What profit per hectare would you have to see before you would start growing Leucaena?

5. Would you be willing to try a small plot on your farm as an experiment?

6. What do you think the future of growing Leucaena your country is?

7. Would you be interested in growing Leucaena for feeding livestock?

8. Do you have set aside hectares you could grow Leucaena on?

WHAT ABOUT PROCESSING LEUCAENA?

1. How far would you be willing to haul Leucaena for processing?

2. How much would you be willing to pay for a small scale Leucaena livestock feed project?  if you wanted to grow Leucaena for the market?

3. Would you be interested in having your cooperative buy a Leucaena livestock feed plant  and bring the portable processor to your farm to process the crop?

ABOUT LEUCAENA MARKETING

1. Would you want to develop a small scale processing plant and produce/ market Leucaena locally(horse bedding, lab animal litter, livestock feed, poultry litter)?

2. Would you be willing to sell your Leucaena to the Japanese?

3. Would you grow Leucaena on a contract basis with a Japanese firm? 

LEUCAENA AGRO-INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS

1. Would you be interested in developing an additional profit center on your farm by producing, packaging and marketing:

Leucaena fuel briquettes

Leucaena livestock feed

Leucaena fertilizer

Leucaena seed plantation

Want to Learn More about How To Develop Your Own Leucaena Project?

Take Our Online Leucaena Production Course?  Here's just a few of the questions you'll be able to answer once you conclude the course:

1.  Write up the information on your Leucaena project.

2. List 4 steps for making a drying rack for Leucaena

3. List 8 ways to use Leucaena?

4. Describe how to inoculate Leucaena seeds.

5. Describe where you will find wild type Leucaena growing

6. Describe what part of the bamboo irrigation pipe fits into the pump head.

7. List the parts of the Leucaena plant.

8. Give the definition of nitrogen fixation.

9. Identify which of these are steps for making Manure tea

10. Give the proper sequence for growing Leucaena by direct seeding.

11. One of the following items is out of sequence for growing Leucaena by transplantation. Number the parts in the proper sequence

12. Step one for drying Leucaena is stated.

Give part two

13. Two sheets on the Leucaena Agroforestry Systems sequences are given. One of the two sheets has the proper sequence. Select it and place R on it.

14. There are several problems with using Leucaena alone for livestock feed. List them...

15. Go through step one of the sequence below double digging.

16. How long did it take you to complete step...of the double digging sequence?

17. What problems did you have in performing the task of double digging?

18. What do you think would make it easier to perform the task of double digging?

19. Complete all parts of the job of double digging in the right sequence.

20. Demonstrate part 1 of the sequence for seed treatment.

21. Demonstrate the entire set of steps for making a charcoal kiln in the correct sequence.

22. Observe Entrepreneur X performing the task of keeping his seed orchard records.

a. What did he/she do right?

b. What did he/she do wrong?

Now tell him the correct way to do it.

23. If you would develop a new sequence for performing task making a charcoal kiln, what would it be?

Why?

24. The practice of deforestation led to desertification.

Desertification is undesirable. What ideas do you have for replacing deforestation with another action?

25. The steps in selecting Leucaena seeds are listed in sequence. Please perform each of the sequences, then write  the results in a report.

26. Give 3 alternatives for achieving treated seeds other than the one given in the above sequence.

27. Do you agree or disagree with the statement - "Every tropical home should have its own small grove of Leucaena trees."

Give two reasons.

28. What are your goals for learning this material? 

29. Give 5 components to the process of soil conservation.

30. List ten ways Leucaena is used for soil conservation.

31. Go and visit a Leucaena farm. take photographs and ask question s and ask them how they are progressing.

32. Bring some of your friends in to look at your project. Brainstorm a better way to do the activities you have learned.

Want to take this online course? 

Send In Your Questions to leucaena@forestworld2050.com  

Go to Leucaena Production Society Pages

Leucaena Information Center Being Developed

There is a great deal of interest in Leucaena for biomass energy, livestock feed, bioremediation,  ornamental shade, green pods for food,  reforestation, nurse trees, green matter production,  natural fertilizer, living fences,  fuelwood, energy briquettes,  hardboard, particle board, furniture, pulp feedstock, firebreaks,  carbon sequestration,  watershed restoration, and economic development.

The LPS is setting up a special Leucaena Information Center where we make available summaries of research findings and economic studies from many countries like the USA, India, Australia and others. We are developing a Leucaena information center here in Maricopa County Arizona and are offering Leucaena seeds as well. These seeds were grown in Arizona and have been tested for viability. We are selecting cold resistant Leucaena here for tropical mountain pasture use. The LPS also provides consultancy for development of Leucaena based projects.

Free subscription to Leucaena Production Society's free online Leucaena Development Newsletter is available - email leucaena@forestworld2050.com  

We Can Create A Sustainable World In which There Is Enough For All to Enjoy An Abundant and Meaningful Life If we Realize That All our Resources, Plant, Animal, Mineral, Natural and EarthHuman Must be Considered Valuable and Even Vital To the Survival Of Us All. We As EarthHumans, However, Have the Ultimate Responsibility Because We Are in Control.

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