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1. PATCHOULI
Example Set of Flash
Cards Slide Show
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2. STEPS
1. Choose Location 9. Distillation
2. Make a nursery 10. Why Patchouli?
3. Prepare land 11. Supply Chain
4. Planting 12. Contacts
5. Maintenance 13. Finance
6. Pests and 14. Business Plan
Diseases 15. Tips
7. Harvest
8. Post-Harvest
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3. Choose Location
• 50 to 400m • Fertile soil
above sea level
• Good drainage
• High
temperature and • Enough sunlight
humidity • Near distillery
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4. Choose Location [checklist]
• Patchouli growing area starts from
500 sq metres
• 50 to 400-metre-high above sea
level
• High temperature and humidity
• Enough sunlight - not shielded by
tall trees
• Fertile and crumbly soil with
plenty of natural nutrient
• Good drainage no stagnant water
• Near distillery
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5. Make a Nursery
• Learn nursery • Wait for root
cuttings skills growth
• Find good, local • Use poly bags
parent plants
• Use correct • Make shade
cutting sizes house
• Stimulate roots
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6. Make a Nursery [checklist 1]
Patchouli nursery from cuttings
from a good and chosen parent
plant. Learn how to do it from
Department of Agriculture's
instructors. Grow the cutting
first using a polybag.
Parent plants - Select from a
patchouli parent plant from
local variety with good growth
and no disease. Cutting sizes -
branch/stem diameter for
cutting is 0.8 - 1 cm. The length
of a cutting 15 - 25 cm and has
at least six buds.
Root stimulant - Remove all the leaves
except 4 small leaves on the top, then soak
the tip of the cuttings stem in a root
stimulating organic liquid fertilizer for 5
minutes.
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7. Make a Nursery [checklist 2]
Root growth - tie the cuttings together with
50 - 100 other patchouli cuttings stems and
leave for 15 days.
Polybag - When the root and the
leaves start to grow, move the
cuttings into a polybag filled with
the following evenly-mixed
materials: 10 kgs of soil, 12.5 kgs
of husk, 2.5 kgs of sand, and 10
kgs of animal compost. Grow the
cuttings in the polybag for 2
months at most.
Make a shade house - The shade
house is 180-cm-high on the east
side and 120-cm-high on the west
side so the sunlight can shine in.
Cover the top of the shade house
with leaves or plastic net so the
sunlight does not shine directly
onto the cuttings. Place the
polybags in shade house.
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8. Prepare Land
• Clear land
• Prune trees
• Add drainage if necessary
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9. Prepare Land [checklist ]
Preparing the land for patchouli cultivation
requires the following steps:
• Prepare land by clearing
grass and shrubs
• Prune the branches and
leaves of tall trees around the
growing area
• If flat land, make a trench
to avoid stagnant water. For
sloping land, drainage is not
necessary
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10. Planting
• Plant spaces
• Make holes
• Use nursery cuttings
• Lie cutting flat
• Cover with soil
• Wet planting time
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11. Planting [checklist 1]
The steps in planting patchouli are:
Measure the space between
plants since it is a very
important issue for fully-grown
patchoulis. An ideal planting
space for a fertile land is 100 cm
x 100 cm or 1 metre square,
whereas a less-fertile land (such
as terracota) requires 60 cm x
60 cm spacing.
Make plant holes (5-cm-deep).
After the cuttings are taken
from the parent plant's stem, it
can be planted in the land right
away, but this method has high
risk of dead cuttings. It is
recommended to use a cuttings
that has been planted in a
polybag before. (See 3 Make a
nursery)
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12. Planting [checklist 2]
Put the cuttings in the plant
hole. The stem's position
should be flat on the ground
and sideways.
Cover with soil and use your
foot to press it gently so the
cuttings could blend with the
soil.
Plant at the beginning of the
rain/wet season Young
patchouli cuttings need shade
from leaves or by planting
temporary shading crops such
as maize in between the
patchouli plants. Maize will be
ready to be harvested in 3-4
months after which patchouli
cuttings are well established
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13. Maintenance
• Weeding
• Disease spotting
• Trimming
• Recovery
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14. Maintenance [checklist 1]
There are several steps that has
to be done in maintaining
patchouli plant:
Clear the area from weeds and
other un supporting plants
regularly, using hoes and
machetes. Be careful not to
disturb the roots and cause
disease to the patchouli plants.
Stitching is done after the
plants aged 2 - 4 weeks, by
removing dead plants or plants
infected by pests and diseases.
Burn or dispose those dead
plants away from the planting
area to avoid spreading disease.
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15. Maintenance [checklist 2]
Trimming after the plants are
3-month-old and clumps are
formed that touch other
patchouli plants. Trimming is
to the third branch and above.
Recovery is done after
harvesting. The branches,
stems and twigs that are left
behind after harvest and are
close to the ground are
covered with 10-to-15-cm-
thick of soil.
Break the tips of the branches
that are far from the ground
(but make sure that they are
still connected) and cover the
broken cuttings with soil so
that patchouli tillers will grow
and may produce more crop.
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16. Why Patchouli?
Simple Crop and
High Selling Price
Patchouli, a member of the mint family, is
easy to cultivate and produces essential oil
with quite a high selling price.
To obtain good quality essential oil, farmers
need to focus on obtaining good root stock ,
perform maintenance on a regular basis, and
have access to a distillery where dried
leaves are purchased per kilo.
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17. Simple Crop and
High Selling Price
Patchouli can be harvested every 2 - 3
months, that is why it makes a very good
alternative source of family income.
ARE YOU READY TO GROW PATCHOULI?
Requirement
Market : Distillery
Finance : < $100
Skill : Agriculture
Resources : >500m land
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18. Decision Making Steps
1. Why Patchouli?
2. Do you have a buyer?
3. Do you have the skills?
4. Do you have the land / resources?
5. Is Cash available?
6. What contacts do you have?
7. Discuss with family and friends
8. Do you have time?
9. Decide!
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19. Supply Chain
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20. Contacts
Web:
•http://www.oiscajfpr.org/home/program/nilam
•http://livelihoodmembersdatabase.appspot.com/li
vecenter
PIM Online:
•http://apps.facebook.com/pimdesigner/
Alex Halvachs, Payan Bertrand
Mobile : 081362437177
Email : timhalvachs@hotmail.com
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21. Finance - Revenue
REVENUE
Total 12 kgs of
Production: Essential Oil
Selling
Rp 300,000
Price:
Total Production (Kg) x Selling
Revenue: Rp. 6,600,000
Price (Rp)
Kg x
12 550,000
Rp.
• See Capital
• See Profit
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22. Finance - Capital
CAPITAL
Type of
No Steps Capital
Capital
1 Location Selection
2 Nursery 100,000 Seasonal
3 Land Preparation
Farming Tools (hoes,
Fixed
machetes, etc.) 170,000
4 Planting 100,000 Seasonal
5 Maintenance
6 Pests and Diseases Control
7 Harvesting 100,000 Seasonal
8 Post-Harvest
Cost of Distillation 1,200,000 Seasonal
Total Fixed Capital
Only at
(Only disbursed in the beginning of 170,000
start up
the process)
Total Seasonal Capital Disbursed
(Needed in every cultivation 1,500,000 every
season) season
Total Initial Capital 1,670,000
Remarks:
Capital estimation is made in accordance to the condition
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of a 25 m x 25 m area.
The cost of essential oil distillation is assumed to be about
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Rp. 100.000,- per kilogram of essential oil extracted.
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23. Finance - Profit
PROFIT
Revenue: 6,600,000
Seasonal Capital: 1,500,000
Profit: 5,100,000
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24. Business Plan
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25. Tips
• Funding proposal
• Process People profile
• Model - raw materials and people
• Clustering
• Eco strategies
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