The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, “If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago.”

-Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935), Lecture, Vienna, Nov 1929  

 

Plantation - Operation

In 2012 roughly 10,000 hectares will be cultivated with Mallee trees, Acacia Aulacocarpa and Cajanus Cajan producing biomass for renewable energy, which would become renewable Bio Oil, Eucalyptus Oil and Specialty Chemicals.
 
 

This process would offer new opportunities for farm income diversification and natural resource management in medium to low rainfall regions. Some of these crops are described as short cycle coppicing trees planted for biomass production and grown interspersed with perennial agro forestry crops.

Soleco (Global) Limited has identified several species of trees with high density biomass and high lignin content that can be cultivated to produce sustainable, cost effective products.

Presently, the identified indigenous species are multipurpose and are exploited to satisfy different subsistence needs. They are in danger and threatened with extinction. Soleco project would replant and with other indigenous and exotic trees help with re-forestation for a sustainable forest conservation which would enhanced and developed an economic vehicle that can provide needed social and environmental benefits to multiple sites in Africa.

The company proposed design includes a model farm with important horticultural and other cellulose crops developed with modern irrigation system. A high density plantation, multi-stored cropping and high tech floriculture, use of biotech techniques for the pest management, Vermiculture biotechnology and modern nursery with various shed net houses to meet the training need and supply the planting material for the project.

The Initial project size is 25,000 acres (~10,000 hectares).