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 likewise has great deals of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil considered to hold excellent pledge as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to utilize these resources to develop jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and offer high productivity, along with to develop approaches of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological technique will help to accomplish a low carbon society.
Creating a bioenergy production design based on the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data associating with Jatropha will be constructed and appropriate varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that is subject to winter, efforts will be made to establish a growing system that is flexible with to climate modification. The project will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model using plant genetic resources that are native 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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