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The jathropha plant is a good example of a biodiesel feedstock. One big advantage is that it can grow on degraded soils and enables other types of agriculture. Jatropha has many advantages over other flora that can thrive under adverse circumstances. It is not eaten by most animals and is a vigorous, drought and pest resistant plant and when planted as a fence repels rodents and has phyto-protective action against pestilence and pathogens and thus provides additional protection to inter cropped plants. Cattle have been found to graze in the space between Jatropha rows in large plantations. Jatropha plantations also attract breeding birds and honey collecting bees. They are not harmful to people looking after them or handling their seeds or seed cake.