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Founded Date February 14, 1927
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Information-based Optimization of Jatropha Biomass Energy Production in the Frost- and Drought-prone Regions Of Botswana
Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the accomplishment of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the country 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 great pledge as a biofuel. The objective of this project is to make use of these resources to develop jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high efficiency, in addition to to develop approaches of these ranges. In this way, a biological approach will help to attain 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 ranges will be established. Moreover, in this desert that undergoes winter, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is versatile with regard to climate change. The job will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant genetic resources that are indigenous to Botswana.