DASUKI Natotomo once considered himself the luckiest man in South Kalimantan. At that time, May three years ago, in Cububur, Bogor, West Java, he and 374 farmers from all over Indonesia followed a training program for castor oil plant cultivation, one of the biofuel-producing plants.

With his head full of plans, Dasuki returned to his village in Banjarbaru. Arriving home he right away sowed the souvenir he’d brought: 5 kilos of castor oil seed