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 its ready-for-planting trees will mature in as little as eight months, qualifies as a row crop for the agricultural exemption, and will substantially outperform wild jatropha. The trees can be mechanically harvested, according to MDF.

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