Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the accomplishment of a low carbon society based upon bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can stand up to dryness and winter cold.
It also has large numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant 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 develop jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high productivity, as well as to develop approaches of cultivating these ranges.
In this method, a biological approach will help to attain a low carbon society.
Creating a bioenergy production design based upon the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information connecting to jatropha curcas will be built and ideal varieties will be developed.
Moreover, in this desert that undergoes cold weather, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is flexible with regard to environment change. The task will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model using plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.
