Crops in Botswana grow gradually due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the accomplishment of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the nation has an abundance of wild plants that can withstand dryness and winter season cold.
It likewise has large numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant quantities of an oil considered to hold excellent guarantee as a biofuel. The objective of this project is to make use of these resources to establish jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and offer high performance, as well as to establish approaches of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological approach will assist to achieve a low carbon society.
Creating a bioenergy production model based on the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information associating with jatropha curcas will be constructed and suitable varieties will be established.
Moreover, in this desert that undergoes winter, efforts will be made to develop a growing system that is flexible with regard to environment change.
