Crops in Botswana grow gradually due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the achievement of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can hold up against dryness and winter season cold. It also has big numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil thought about to hold excellent pledge as a biofuel. The goal of this job is to utilize these resources to establish jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and deal high productivity, as well as to establish techniques of cultivating these ranges.
In this way, a biological approach will help to achieve a low carbon society.
Creating a bioenergy production design based upon the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data associating with jatropha curcas will be constructed and appropriate ranges will be established. Moreover, in this dry region that is subject to winter, efforts will be made to develop a growing system that is flexible with respect to environment modification.
