Olive
Tree Plantation
Today millions of Indians suffer from cardiac vascular diseases, related to an unhealthy lifestyle. One of the biggest problems is the intake of the not healthy prepared food. In India a lot of food is prepared in palm oil or peanut oil. This increases the cholesterol level in the blood, which endangers on it's turn a healthy vascular system.
In countries around the Mediterranean Sea this is not a problem. Reason for that is the menu of the people, using lots of olive oil. Scientific evidence shows that the use of olive oil in the daily menu diminishes the chance to get a cardiac vascular disease. However the problem in India is that it is depending on expensive imports increased with import duties.
It is therefore that Indo Dutch Joint Venture Consultancy, together with other participants, will try to bring the olive tree on a big scale to India, so that it can become self supporting. This will be realized in form of a Joint Venture between financers, landowners, suppliers of seedlings and Management.

In order to achieve this aim, Jan Lindeman has formed a consortium which will do a feasibility study to the set up of a 600 Hectare olive tree plantation ( with approximately 240.000 trees ) in the North Western part of Gujarat. The study will take place between August and December 2010 in India. The result will be published at this site. The plantation must be realized by using the GROASIS WATERBOXX, a Dutch invention of Mr. Pieter Hoff. In June 2010 the prominent American Magazine “Popular Science“ has graded Hoff’s WATERBOXX under the 10 best inventions of 2010. It needs to be proven that with the use of the BOXX the set up of tree plantations in Indian desert areas is possible without using an irrigation system but by use of condense water, energy free collected during the night. Many tests has been successfully realized but on a limited scale. The latest success is the interest of Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of the State of California, to use the BOXX to reforest bigger parts of California in the next 35 years.
For more information on the GROASIS WATERBOXX click here.
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