Crops in Botswana grow gradually due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the achievement of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can stand up to dryness and winter season cold. It also has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful amounts of an oil thought about to hold great guarantee as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to use these resources to develop Jatropha varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and offer high productivity, in addition to to approaches of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological approach will assist to accomplish a low carbon society.
Creating a bioenergy production design based upon the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information relating to jatropha curcas will be constructed and suitable varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that goes through winter, efforts will be made to develop a growing system that is versatile with respect to climate change. The job will work to build 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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