Florida firm has 1 million jatropha seedlings in ground as jatropha begins take-off in US

April 7, 2008

In Florida, My Dream Fuel has 1 million jatropha seedlings in the ground in Hendry County, and is planning to open a 150,000 sq ft seed crushing unit to produce jatropha oil for the US market. The company is also promoting its seedling product to farmers, to switch to jatropha production for their marginal lands. Sunshine Biofuels is exploring the establishment of a biodiesel production facility in Collier COunty to process the oil. a start-up company formed two years ago to build an alternative fuel plant.

Swaziland jatropha plantation gets underway

In Swaziland, activist Bob Geldof was on hand to promote jatropha-based biodiesel. D1 Oils recently raised $170 million on the Alternative Investment Market, and recently signed a joint venture with B...

Zimbabwe to release 30 million jatropha seedlings for 87,000 acres of biofuels plantations

In Zimbabwe, the National Oil Company will release 30 million jatropha plant seedlings by March to farmers. The jatropha seedlings will be used to provide 87,000 hectares of jatropha, which would be u...

D1 Oils can produce jatropha biodiesel at breakeven of $65 per barrel, says CEO

In Hong Kong, the CEO of D1 Oil told the Reuters Global Agriculture and Biofuel Summit that the company can produce jatropha biodiesel profitably as long as the price of oil exceeds $65 per barrel. Th...

Dream Fuels partners with Lee County for Florida jatropha demonstration

Dream Fuels donated 1,500 jatropha seedlingsÂ to Lee County for a 1-acre demonstration farm. The county plans to use jatropha and restaurant grease to produce biodiesel fuel for the county fleet. ...

Irish group agrees to finance pilot jatropha cultivation project in Haiti

In Haiti, a group of Irish entrepreneurs agreed to finance the pilot Jatropha Pepinye program in Terrier Rouge, Haiti. "It has the potential, because it can be grown virtually anywhere, of creating...

Florida’s My Dream Fuels aims to plant 900,000 jatropha trees

In Florida, My Dream Fuel has initiated a campaign to recruit farmers to plant 900,000 jatropha trees, or enough to produce as much as 1.5 Mgy of jatropha oil from 2,250 acres. The company said that i...

Written by Jim Lane · Filed Under Producer News