What is permaculture?

Why Tropical Forestry?

• Highest growth rate in the world due to year round rainfall/sunlight
exposure
• High growth rate = high yields, high yields = high profits
• Highest biodiversity in the world i.e. a plethora of species to cater to a
lot of needs
• Imitating nature: no chemicals, no monocultures, passive irrigation,
co2 sequestration, self-fertilizing, organic system
• In fact, its beyond organic – its forest grade
Tropical permaculture - forestry
• Food
• Fuel
• Fiber
• Timber
• Medicine
 Reactive Architecture Clothing
Education
Preventative
Lifestyle &
Healthcare Cuisines
Culture

Energy
Fuel Tech
Production

Automation

Electricity Food R&D

Jungle Lab #1
0.4 Hectares
5 Houses
1 Proper Kitchen
2000 watt PV cells
4800 wh storage
8 people Carrying Capacity
Rainwater catchment system
Case study:
Sustainable
energy
production
"If everyone agreed to become
vegetarian, … [earth] would
support 10 billion people”
-Edward O. Wilson, Harvard Sociobiologist
• 

Peters C, Wilkins J, Fick G. Cornell University

*2000 calorie diet

• Annual monoculture vs perennial polyculture
• Annual crops = re-planted every 1-3 months e.g. corn, rice, wheat
• Perennial crops = plant once, harvest every season
• Mono culture = one type of plant in a given area of land
• Polyculture (tumpang sari) = multiple plants arranged in a mutually
beneficial guild
1st year:
 

*2000 calorie diet

  2nd year  3rd year

  5th year  10th year

*2000 calorie diet

 Potential CC Growth in The Tropics (Low Estimate)
70

R² = 0.95 60
60

50
Carrying Capacity per Ha of Land

50

40
40

30 27
25

20 17

10

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Time (in Years)

 Potential CC Growth in The Tropics (Energy Accounting)
150

130
f(x) = 0.45 x² + 2.14 x − 5.88
R² = 0.99
Carrying Capacity per Ha of Land

110

90

70

50

30

10

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
-10

Time (in Years)

 No. Jackfruit Trees Growth Rate
2000

1800

1600

1400
Number of Jackfruit Trees

1200

1000

800

600

400

200

0
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

Time (in Years)

LLF
Jackfruit Trees Exponential (Jackfruit Trees)
Lahan Padi Indonesia: 8,111,593 hectares (badan pusat statistik)
Conversion to MP: potential to feed more than 450,000,000 people

Lahan Tebu Sumba: 10,000 hectares

Conversion to MP: potential to feed 600,000 people

Lahan Sawit Indonesia: 9 million hectares (badan pusat statistik)

Conversion to MP: potential to feed more than 500,000,000 people
Value added cash crops
Very Low Input, Very High Output
What We’ve Realized

Legal Land is our limiting factor

No. of Human Resource capable of doing what we’re doing
EDUCATION
• For employment
• For profit (biology, physics, chemistry in relation to tropical
permaculture)
FUTURE
 5 Year Plan

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

• First major cashflow • First major cashflow • Increased cashflow from

from land #1 from land #2 land #1, 2, & 3
• Expansion to Education • Increased cashflow from
land #1 production

• Getting land #1 • Expansion to Healthcare • First class of employable

• Lay down groundwork • Take in Students graduates
for production for land • Getting land #2 • Getting land #3
#1
Cash flow forecast?
• Step #1 obtain land
• Step #2 land analysis
• Step #3 infrastructure + equipment + resources (seeds ect) pooling to
monetize (costs) plus labor costs
• Step #4 projected cash flow from select cash crops/immediate
ventures?