However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can withstand dryness and winter cold. It also has large numbers of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have abundant quantities of an oil considered ...

The government is looking into diverting money from diesel subsidies into four biodiesel production plants and possibly making biodiesel from the seed of the jatropha tree. Oil from the seeds was ...

We have covered already what jatropha is: a promising crop which can be cultivated on barren land that does not compete with food production and from which you can obtain oil (with a quality ...

(Photo: Courtesy) Kenya is among countries to benefit from a five-year regional project to scale up production of jatropha trees in commercial quantities. In the wake of renewed clamour for ...