Sentences with phrase «jatropha curcas»

In comparison, 108,100 km2 would be needed for soybean, 73,000 km2 for rapeseed / sunflower, and 31,700 km2 for Jatropha curcas.»

Under the joint venture Myanmar Bio Energy Company, the Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture, the Japan Development Institute, and the Japan Bio Energy Development Cooperation will be expanding cultivation of Jatropha curcas, establishing a refining / trading center and conducting education and training.

Though plenty of reports have been done in the past two years indicating that while jatropha curcas does grow in marginal conditions, to produce consistent crops yields at levels suitable for

Both parcels of land will be used to cultivate Jatropha curcas, the seeds of which will be refined into biodiesel.

Jatropha curcas, for instance, is a plant that grows well on marginal lands and can also be used to restore degraded lands, suggesting that Jatropha production, if carefully managed, may be expanded without directly competing with natural forests or high - value agriculture lands used for food production.

This classification is based, we believe, on confusion between Jatropha curcas and other varities of jatropha, e.g. Jatropha multifida.

Jatropha curcas is, however, classified as invasive in some countries, including Australia.

The biofuel is produced from the seed of Jatropha curcas.

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.