Tissue culture

A highly advanced, tissue culture facility is installed for mass propagation of Horticultural and Plantation crops, Foliages, Ornamentals with a production capacity of 5 million plants per year.

Labland has established an exclusive plant tissue culture lab for micropropagation of Jatropha with the support of Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Biodiesel refinery

Labland has set up an oil expeller with a seed crushing capacity of 1 tonne seeds per day and a refinery with 50 lt / per day biodiesel production capacity. The feed stock of Jatropha seeds to feed the expeller is procured from local market and its own plantations established at Bada, Gujarat.

Germplasm bank

The Company has Jatropha curcas accessions collected from different agro climatic zones within and outside the country, maintained in its experimental farm. Labland has developed elite selections using these accessions, since 2002. These elite selections are being used for developing pure lines and hybrids. Establishment of a Jatropha curcas germplasm bank under in vitro conditions is also in progress.

Other facilities and centers

• Hi-tech greenhouses which can harden 800,000 plantlets at a time; along with walk-in hardening tunnels

• Secondary hardening shade net house facility of about 20,000 sft.

• Poly house facility for growing Jatropha seedlings in about 15,000 sft.

• International Jatropha Technology Centre

• Jatropha Information Dissemination Centres

• Jatropha dedicated Tissue Culture facility

• Jatropha Display and Training Centre