Thursday, September 3, 2015

Moringa Oleifera

Moringa is a crop plant that is grown throughout the world, especially in impoverished tropical areas.

It is a tropical tree which has the capability of being grown as an annual forage crop in many parts of the world outside of tropical areas.  Because it is an emerging crop, claims about the cultivation of this plant vary wildly, but our experiments show that they bear truth.



Moringa is capable of producing at high densities and is extremely nutritious.  As such, it has potential as a forage crop for livestock including dairy cattle, where we expect a %40 increase in output with a %50 decrease in costs.  Those are some pretty extreme numbers, even if they are based on a few estimations and long-term development of markets that do not currently exist.

purple stemmed moringa from thailand

Although we have experimented with Moringa Oleifera from a variety of sources around the world, our preference is for PKM1 moringa, sourced from one of the individuals who pioneered it's development as an annual crop, capable of producing seed pods within a single year in many areas.


Moringa is capable of producing over 200 tons of biomass per acre.  Approximately %30 of that is useful as livestock feed which means intensive cultivation is capapble of producing 60 tons of feed per acre and 140 tons of additional, useful biomass.  Those are some pretty impressive numbers considering alfalfa is only capable of producing 11 tons per acre.


My goal is to produce Moringa Oleifera for livestock usage and facilitate the research and development of Moringa in actual usage for production of animal based proteins. 

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