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10 February 2012
   
 
 
Article by: Creamer Media Reporter
 
 
 
 
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Jatropha: A smallholder bioenergy crop - 2 378 KB
 

This report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the International Fund for Agricultural Development finds that jatropha, a wild plant that grows well in dry areas on degraded lands and can be processed into biofuel, has potential as a low-cost energy source for poor farmers. However, the report stresses that jatropha is still essentially a wild plant sorely in need of crop improvement, and that expecting it to substitute significantly for oil imports in developing countries is unrealistic.

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