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 on bioenergy.
However, the nation has an abundance of wild plants that can withstand dryness and winter season cold.
It likewise has great deals of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have abundant quantities of an oil considered to hold great promise as a biofuel. The objective of this task is to make use of these resources to develop jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and deal high performance, along with to develop methods of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological technique will assist to achieve a low carbon society.
Creating a bioenergy production design based upon the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data associating with jatropha curcas will be constructed and appropriate ranges will be established. Moreover, in this dry area that goes through winter, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with regard to climate change. The project will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production model utilizing plant hereditary resources that are indigenous to Botswana.
