Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the accomplishment of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can hold up against dryness and winter cold. It also has great deals of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil considered to hold fantastic promise as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to use these resources to develop Jatropha varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and deal high performance, along with to establish methods of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a will help to accomplish a low carbon society.
Creating a bioenergy production design based upon the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data relating to jatropha curcas will be constructed and ideal ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that goes through winter, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is flexible with regard to climate modification. The task will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model using plant genetic resources that are indigenous to Botswana.
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Information based Optimization of Jatropha Biomass Energy Production in the Frost and Drought prone Regions Of Botswana
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