Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the achievement of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the nation has an abundance of wild plants that can endure dryness and winter cold. It also has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil considered to hold great pledge as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to make use of these resources to develop jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high productivity, as well as to establish techniques of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a will assist to achieve a low carbon society.
Creating a bioenergy production design based on the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data associating with Jatropha will be constructed and appropriate ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that undergoes winter, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is versatile with respect to environment change. The job will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model using plant hereditary 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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