Zimbabwe banks on jatropha for biofuel

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Monday, December 17, 2007

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Zimbabwe banks on jatropha for biofuel

ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwe is aiming to construct biofuel plants in all of its 10 provinces by 2010, the Minister of Science and Technology Development, Dr. Olivia Muchena, told local reporters last week.

The Ministry of Environment and Tourism, through the Forestry Company of Zimbabwe, came up with a jatropha programme and will be stepping up production of the biofuel crop in January of next year, Muchena said.

"By 2010, we want to make sure that all the provinces have plants that produce bio fuel," she said. "Dr. Gideon Gono [RBZ Governor] informed me when we toured the construction site of a plant in Mutoko. The Governor of Matabeleland South, (Cde) Angeline Masuku, has already started work in her province. We want to prosper, let us grow these plants, which also produce fertiliser."

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Source: Energy Current