Toyota to Build Biodiesel Plans in Philippines
PHILIPPINES - The Toyota Tsusho Corp is planning to build a biodiesel plant in the Philippines.

World’s First Elite Jatropha Cultivar Launched
GUATEMALA - SG Biofuels, a sustainable plant oil company specialising in the development of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainable source of oil, today announced the launch of JMax 100, a proprietary...

Refinery Boost to Jatropha Farming
INDIA - UK oil company, D1 Oils, has joined forces with Williamson Magor Group in India to set up a biofuel refinery in Balipara in Sonitpur.

Dutch Companies to Invest in Biofuel in Mali
MALI - Dutch automaker Kia Netherlands recently announced that it would be investing in Mali Biocarburant SA (MBSA), a Dutch-backed biodiesel programme in Mali.

DRDO Turns to Biodiesel
INDIA - India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has launched a project to produce biodiesel from jatropha.

Daimler Committed to Jatropha Biodiesel
INDIA - Daimler AG has started a new project for the cultivation of the biodiesel raw material jatropha in the south of India and the seedlings for the first 100 hectares have been planted.

Is India's 'Miracle' Biofuel Crop Too Good to Be True?
INDIA - To its fans, jatropha is a miracle crop, an eco-friendly answer to India's growing energy needs, but some experts are starting to question whether the wonder-shrub is too good to be ...

Bionas Prepares Market for Jatropha
MALAYSIA - Malaysia is to develop its production of biodiesel from jatropha through the national company, Bio Oil Nasional.

Sequencing Jatropha Genome
US - SG Biofuels, a plant science company, has joined forces with Life Technologies Corporation, a provider of innovative life science solutions, to advance the development of Jatropha as a sustainable...

IndianOil to Buy Land for Oil Seeds
INDIA - IndianOil wants to buy 50,000 hectares of wasteland in Uttar Pradesh to plant oilseeds, such as Jatropha and Karanjia.

Toyota Tsusho to Produce Jatropha as Biofuel
JAPAN - Toyota Tsusho Corp., the trading affiliate of Toyota Motor Corp., plans to start growing jatropha next year as it bets that higher crop yields and oil prices will make the plant a profitable...

Centre for Turning Waste into Biofuel
INDIA - Avoiding the food-versus-fuel security conflict, the Union Cabinet has approved a national biofuel policy, which makes it clear that biodiesel will be produced from plants cultivated...

Jatropha Research Centre Established
INDIA - The Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University (SDAU) and Nandan Biomatrix Limited (NBL) are to set up a Jatropha Information Centre (JIC) at Deesa.

Institute Researches Jatropha Biodiesel
UGANDA - The National Forestry Research Institute in Uganda is to research to production of biodiesel from jatropha.

Feasibility Study with Jatropha in Brazil
BRAZIL - A start-up company is investigating the feasibility of a large-scale biofuels project using jatropha.

Jatropha Plant Planned for Zambézia
MOZAMBIQUE - A Jatropha processing plant could be built in the province of Zambézia in Mozambique.

Bioenergy Plantation Upbeat on Jatropha Biofuels
SINGAPORE - Jatropha-based biofuel will continue to be a viable source of energy in the aviation and pharmaceutical sectors despite challenges in cultivation and development, according to Singapore...

Tamil Nadu Transport Switching to Biofuel
INDIA - The Tamil Nadu Transport Department (TNTD) is looking to go green by using biofuel for its transport system.

When Biofuels and Biosecurity Meet
AUSTRALIA - A symposium entitled Biosecurity in the New Bioeconomy: Threats and Opportunities, will be hosted by CSIRO at the Shine Dome in Canberra from Thursday, 19 to Saturday, 21...

Rwanda to Produce 20 Million Litres of Biofuel
RWANDA - Rwanda has signed on two foreign companies to start producing 20 million litres of biofuel annually from jatropha plants in three years time, the minister for energy said.

New Policy to Develop Kenya's Biofuels Industry
KENYA - Kenya has invented a new five-year strategy for developing biodiesel as a clean source of energy.

Crops for Biofuels in Papua
PAPUA - While Papua has a variety crops that can be processed into biodiesel, to date only oil palm and coconut have been commercially developed, Tatang H.Soerawidjaja, a researcher from the...

Companies Join to Produce Biodiesel in Kalimantan
INDONESIA - Komatsu heavy equipment distributor PT United Tractors, Komatsu Ltd and coal producer Adaro Energy are to join forces to produce biodiesel in Indonesia next year.

Air Force Academy Partners with Cool Clean to Tackle Biofuels
US - The Environmental Research Center in Colorado recently partnered with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and an Eagan, Minnesota, company to help...

Biofuels Future for Aviation
GLOBAL - Use of biofuels will be one of teh main means for aviation to meet its climate change objectives.