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 upon bioenergy. However, the nation has an abundance of wild plants that can hold up against dryness and winter season cold. It also has big numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil considered to hold fantastic pledge as a biofuel.
The objective of this job is to make use of these resources to establish Jatropha ranges that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high performance, along with to establish methods of cultivating these varieties.
Creating a bioenergy production design based on the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information connecting to jatropha curcas will be built and suitable varieties will be established.
Moreover, in this arid area that goes through winter, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is flexible with respect to environment modification. The job will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production design using plant hereditary resources that are indigenous to Botswana.
