CJP Found New Couple Oil Crop Cultivation Technology For Biodiesel Production
JAIPUR - The years of continuous research, experiments and trials have given Centre for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) a big break through in the search for a viable alternative...

The myth of jatropha
INDIA - Three-year-old jatropha plantations have proved that claims on this plant are not true.

Jatropha - it proves that diesel grows on trees
INDIA - The glow from burning jatropha seed torches has often saved Maruti Chindu from treading on snakes, but now he carefully nurtures them for a use that he never imagined before...

Oil firm exec hits jatropha promotion
THE PHILIPPINES - An oil industry executive has scoffed at the government's thrust to promote jatropha curcas (tuba-tuba), describing the move like a "pyramiding scheme."

MP to allot land to 11 firms for jatropha cultivation
INDIA - From the initial demand of 90,000 ha of land by companies, the state government has curtailed it to 22,000 ha.

Noczim urges farmers to grow jatropha
ZIMBABWE - The National Oil Company of Zimbabwe has urged farmers to participate in the State enterprise’s jatropha outgrower scheme during the 2007/8 agriculture season to boost oil...

Forestry minister visits Indonesia project site
INDONESIA - Indonesia’s Minister for Forestry, M.S. Kaban, visited carbonpositive’s nursery and proposed planting sites in the Nusa Tenggara region in late November 2007.

Biofuel venture reaps growing benefits from "diesel tree"
GUIZHOU - A Chinese energy company in the southwest province of Guizhou is awaiting its first harvest of more than 13,500 hectares of a "diesel tree", which will yield 15,000 tons of...

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...

Researchers Fuelling the 'Hydrogen Economy'
UK - Scientists at the University of Leeds are turning low-grade sludge into high-value gas in a process, which could make eco-friendly biodiesel even greener and more economical to...

India prepares 'Biomass Atlas' to map and tap bioenergy potential
INDIA - India is implementing one of the world’s largest programmes in renewable energy. The country ranks second in the world for biogas utilization and fifth in wind power. But the...

Indian Bio-diesel producers eye exports
NEW DELHI, INDIA - There may not be a market for bio-diesel in India, as yet, but some enterprising firms are investing in bio-diesel plants with an eye on the export market, writes...

Mindanao 'most suitable' for biodiesel feedstock production
PHILIPPINES - In light of the search for alternative fuels due to the skyrocketing prices of oil products, Mindanao has been eyed as the most suitable area for biodiesel feedstock production....

Is Jatropha The New Wonder Feedstock For Biodiesel?
INDONESIA - The biofuel business is a complex web continuously reacting to the traditional oil business, as rising oil prices spur demand for biofuels.

New Bio-Diesel Plant - a Case of 'Celebrating a Still Birth'
ZIMBABWE - As you drive along old Mazowe Road, northwest out of Harare, your attention is drawn to a large, colourful billboard: it announces the existence of a new bio-diesel plant,...