Jatropha can be fertilised with its nutrient-rich press cake (a residue of the oil extraction process) and survives on far less water compared to sugar cane and corn. Throughout Africa, in places ...

BP Plc, Europe's second-largest oil company, will exit its jatropha biofuel project with D1 Oils Plc to focus on production of ethanol in Brazil and the U.S. and advance biobutanol development. “To ...

Small flowering trees make lovely additions to landscapes in Hawaii. Though we have many choices, a few have characteristics that recommend them for multiple uses by Kona gardeners. The rose jatropha ...

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 ...

European investment companies continue to tout the biofuel as a 'wonder-crop' despite serious environmental and social impacts - Friends of the Earth report A controversial biofuel crop touted by ...

My friend in Rangoon is a busy man. He manages a couple of companies in Burma’s commercial capital, helps raise his children and regularly makes merit at a Buddhist temple. He also spends time tending ...

Study predicts the yields of jatropha will fall in the next decade and that it is better suited to community-level, rather than industrial-scale, production for the biofuel market Jatropha, an ...

Even in South Florida, there are not many plants that bloom year-round. Some bloom on and off all year, but only a few have flowers 365 days a year. One of them is the Jatropha integerrima also known ...

Blooms, birds and butterflies are the attributes everyone experiences when growing the award-winning spicy jatropha. Spicy jatropha also commonly known as peregrina and firecracker jatropha is really ...

A comprehensive new analysis of water use in biofuel crop production finds that jatropha, an oil-rich plant championed for its ability to grow in arid regions where food crops cannot, is the biggest ...

Less than fi ve years ago, it was like a gold rush when states allocated nearly 1 million hectares of land in India for growing jatropha, which produces biodiesel. But most projects turned out to be ...