As Ms Sophia Chari enters the stage with a group of women singing "Jatropha mutsvairo wekutsvaira nhamo", seemingly undeterred by the sweltering heat at Nyamuyaruka Business Centre in Mudzi, visitors ...

MANILA, Philippines - PNOC-Alternative Fuels Corp., the biofuels development arm of state-owned Philippine National Oil Co., is planning to put up its own jatropha processing plant, a top company ...

To facilitate the development of biofuels, PNOC-Alternative Fuels Corp., a unit of state-owned Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC), acquired recently a set of equipment necessary to extract oil from ...

Maputo — Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Saturday visited a small jatropha processing plant in Bilibiza, in Quissanga district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. The oil from the seeds ...

Earlier this century, jatropha was hailed as a “miracle” biofuel. An unassuming shrubby tree native to Central America, it was wildly promoted as a high-yielding, drought-tolerant biofuel feedstock ...

In the fervent race to bring cost-effective biofuels to market, the three leading contenders are algae, Camelina and Jatropha. Jatropha’s promoters have been the fastest off the block, as substantial ...

Jatropha cultivation was given a presidential mandate during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s tenure. Over the years, some Nigerians who had access to land, cultivated large hectares of the plant ...

The UPA government may have finally approved the National Policy on Bio-fuels that envisages 20% of the country?s diesel and petrol to be blended with biofuels by 2017. But one of the largest ...

THAI investors met with officials from Banteay Meanchey province last week to discuss a plan to build a jatropha processing factory and plant 1,000 hectares in the crop, which is considered a key ...

The multi-billion dollar deal inked by PNOC-Alternative Fuels Corp. and London-based firm NRG Chemical Engineering Pte Ltd., on the development of jatropha as a fuel source in the country, has ...

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Monday made a pitch for the cultivation of jathropa, a plant that can be processed into bio-diesel, saying the nation's vast agricultural resources could ease the ...

Zimbabwe’s search for sustainable energy has hit a brick wall as a state-funded project launched in 2005 to address critical fuel shortages through the extraction of biodiesel from jatropha seeds, is ...