Pongamia Seeds

Pongamia Seeds is a preferred species for controlling soil erosion and binding sand dunes because of its dense network of lateral roots. We are reckoned as one of the most dependable Pongamia Tree Seeds Manufacturers and Suppliers in India. Fresh Pongamia Seeds have medicinal properties and traditionally used as medicinal plants. Moreover, some of the benefits of the Pongamia Seeds are as mentioned below:

Pongmia pinnata seeds are used for the extraction of oil that is used as lipids for commercial processes, as an ointment for skin diseases, as a liver medicine, as a lamp fuel in India, and for the production of biodiesel.

Pongamia Seed is also used in the preparation of Pongamia cake that is used as ‘green manure’ as it is rich in protein and nitrogen.

Pongamia Pinnata Cultivation :
Pongamia Pinnata is a medium-sized evergreen or briefly deciduous, drought resistant, glabrous shrub or tree 15-25 m high. Pongamia Pinnata could be used to supplement traditional, highly polluting fuels and provide employment to landless and marginal people. The Pongamia Pinnata Seeds contain about 40% oil, which can be converted to biodiesel by trans-esterification. Pongamia Biofuel requires no engine modification, when blended with diesel in proportions as high as 20 percent.

Pongamia Pinnata is a preferred species for controlling soil erosion and binding sand dunes because of its dense network of lateral roots. Pongamia Pinnata root, bark, leaves, sap, and flower also have medicinal properties and traditionally used as medicinal plants.

Botanical Name : Pongamia pinnata
Authority : (L.) Pierre
Family Fabaceae : Papilionoideae

Common English Names : Indian beech, karum tree, oil tree, pongam, pongam oil tree, poonga-oil-tree, seashore mempari

Native : India

Exotic : Australia, China, Egypt, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tonga, United States of America, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand

High Yielding Pongamia Seeds :
Asian Greenfields is contributing in this Pongamia Biodiesel revolution strongly with its High Yielding Pongamia planting material produced by decade expertise to maximize the commercial possibilities of Pongamia biofuel. The economics of use of biofuels as an alternative to diesel largely depends yield of fruit and recovery of oil. The planting material used in Pongamia plantation mainly decides the Pongamia oil production.

Through our SPN (seed procurement network) Pongamia Germination Seeds are collected from genetically qualified and high yielding trees. These collected Pongamia seeds are engaged for improved Depulping, Pre-cleaning, Pre-treatment, Drying and Grading.

Asian Greenfields offers High Yield Pongamia Cultivation seeds to its clients worldwide. Our high yielding Pongamia planting seeds will produce larger number of Pongamia seeds per tree and the oil content of the seeds will also be higher. Our Pongamia Pinnata Germination Seeds could produce trees which could yield 35000 kgs to 50000 kgs seeds/Hectare in matured stage with proper maintenance, irrigation and care.

This given yields obtained from the trees which are professionally managed with high quality genetically qualified plants, adequate soil nutrition, improved cultivation practices, proper harvesting techniques and premium quality oil processing equipment.

Environmental Requirements :
Pongamia Pinnata withstands temperatures slightly below 00C to 50oC and annual rainfall or 500-2500 mm; the tree grows wild on sandy and rocky soils, including oolitic limestone, but will grow in most soil types, even with its roots in salt water. It is regarded as both a saline and drought tolerant species.

The average oil content in the seed is 35%. From Pongamia Plantation 5.0 MT firewood per hectare per year could be obtained on a renewable basis. Since, this tree is widely grown as a shade or ornamental tree, mainly Pongamia tree could be well utilized for both wasteland afforestation combined with biodiesel production.

Pongamia Plantation :
Fresh seeds require no pre-treatment and germinate within 7 to 9 days which extends upto 1 month. It can be planted at a close spacing, as young plants tolerate shade well. Pongamia Pinnata Seedlings attain a height of 25-30 cm in their first growing season. Transplanting to the field should occur at the beginning of the next rainy season when seedlings are about 60 mc in height. Pongamia saplings have large root systems and soil should be retained around the roots during transplanting.

Pongamia Pinnata is a rapid-growing coppice species and root suckers are rather plentiful as well. The recommended spacing for Pongamia Plantation is 5X5 m in india. Pongamia Pinnata trees reach adult height in 4 or 5 years, bearing at the age 4-7 years. With our high yielding Pongamia Propagation seeds, and proper maintenance, irrigation, care the yield potential could be 35000 kgs to 50000 kgs seeds/Hectare in matured stage.

Pongamia Pinnata – A Biodiesel Tree
Using Pongamia for biodiesel production has the two-fold environmental benefit of growing trees that store carbon while producing oil for fuel. Pongamia will grow on land not fit for food crops and does not need nitrate fertilizers like most other biofuel crops.

Pongamia as a confident source of biodiesel has high oil content (approx. 40%) and can grow on malnourished soils with low levels of nitrogen and high levels of salt; it is fast becoming the focus of a number of biodiesel research programs.

The main advantages of Pongamia are that the higher recovery and quality of oil than other crops, no direct competition with food crops as it is a non-edible. Pongamia has no direct competition with existing farmland as it can be grown on degraded and marginal land. Whilst there are marked advantages in the use of Pongamia for biodiesel, also as it a legume Pongamia could able to fix its own nitrogen from the soil, minimizing the need for added fertilizers.

Benefits of Pongamia

Pongmia Seeds : used for the extraction of oil that is used as lipids for commercial processes, as an ointment for skin diseases, as a liver medicine.

Pongamia Seed Cake : It is used in the preparation of Pongamia cake that is used as ‘green manure’ as it is rich in protein and nitrogen.

Pongamia Leaves : It contains 43% dry matter, 18% crude protein, 62% neutral detergent fibre, and in vitro dry matter digestibility of 50%.

Pongamia Pinnata Flowers : It is considered a good source of pollen for honeybees in India and they yield adequate nectar.

Pongamia Fuelwood : With a calorific value of 4 600 kcal/kg, Pongamia is commonly used as a fuelwood. The seed oil was formerly indispensable as an illuminant in lamps, but has been largely replaced by kerosene.

Pongamia Roots : It yields a natural pigment, pinnatin, which was synthesized in 1967. The Pongamia wood ash is employed in dyeing. Oil from the seeds is used for leather dressing in tanning industries.

Pongamia Bark Fibre : It is made into string, twine or rope, and the wood provides paper pulp.

Pongamia Wood : It varies from white to yellowish-grey with no distinct heartwood beautifully grained and medium to coarse textured. Although Pongamia is a moderately strong timber that is relatively easy to saw, turn and finish, the wood is not considered a quality timber because it is not durable, tends to split and warp during seasoning and is susceptible to insect attack. The Pongamia wood is used for cabinet making, cartwheels, posts, agricultural implements, tool handles and combs.

Pongamia Oil : It is the most important product of the Pongamia tree and vast amounts of seeds are collected in India for commercial processing of industrial uses. It has been found that the seed contains about 40% of a thick, yellow or reddish-brown oil and that 2 kg of mature pods will yield about 1 kg of husked kernels. The Pongamia oil has a bitter taste, a disagreeable aroma and a specific gravity of 0.9371 at 15 deg. C. It is used as a lubricant, varnish, water-paint binder and in soap making. Pongamia is one of the few nitrogen-fixing trees to produce seeds containing oil.

Pongamia Press Cake : when applied to the soil is valued as a pesticide, particularly against nematodes. In rural areas, dried leaves are stored with grain to repel insects. Pounded and roasted seeds used to be utilized as fish poison.

Pongamia As A Medicine : Pongamia seed oil is rubbed as liniment on skin diseases and rheumatic parts. Internally, it is given as a stomachic and cholagogue in dyspepsia and cases of sluggish liver. A seed powder is given as an expectorant in bronchitis and whooping cough, and is also prescribed as a febrifuge and tonic. Pongamia Seed paste is spread on sores and rheumatic parts. An infusion of the leaves is used to relieve rheumatism, a decoction is a cough remedy, expressed juice is used on herpes and itches, and when they are crushed, applied as a poultice for the treatment of parasitic skin diseases. Pongamia flowers are claimed to have anti-diabetic action. Fresh stem bark is applied to reduce the enlargement of the spleen. It is astringent and taken internally to relieve bleeding hemorrhoids while a poultice of young leaves is laid on externally. Pongamia root bark contains a bitter alkaloid and is employed by the people of Guimaras Island in the Philippines as an abortifacient. The antiseptic root juice is put on sores and ulcers and used to clean teeth. In India, the Pongamia tree is a host for the useful lac insect. It is also used as a host for the hemi parasitic sandalwood, Santalum album L.

Pongamia Pinnata As A Fodder : its value is greatest in arid regions. The leaves can be eaten by cattle and are readily consumed by goats however it is not common.

Pongamia Seed Cake (Seed Residue) : Used as a ‘green manure’ as it is rich in protein and nitrogen After oil extraction is bitter and unfit for use as a sole animal feed. It is high in protein but posses several toxic factors, particularly karanjin, pongamol and tannin. It is suggested as a short-term substitute for other protein sources but never serving as more than a 75% replacement.

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