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 upon bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can endure dryness and winter cold.
It likewise has large numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil thought about to hold great promise as a biofuel. The objective of this task is to utilize these resources to establish Jatropha varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high efficiency, as well as to develop techniques of cultivating these ranges. In this method, a biological technique will help to achieve a low carbon society.
Creating a bioenergy production model based on the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information relating to Jatropha will be constructed and suitable ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this arid area that goes through winter, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is versatile with respect to environment modification.
