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 endure dryness and winter cold. It likewise has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil considered to hold excellent pledge as a biofuel. The goal of this job is to make use of these resources to establish jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and offer high efficiency, in addition to to establish approaches of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological method 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 data associating with Jatropha will be built and appropriate ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that undergoes cold weather condition, efforts will be made to develop a growing system that is versatile with respect to climate modification.
