Hot Topics: The latest on jatropha

Here are some of the most popular latest stories on jatropha that have run in Biofuels Digest:

SG Biofuels: In California, jatropha oil developer SG Biofuels announced the opening of its Jatropha Genetic Resource Center to further accelerate profitable, large-scale production of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainable source of feedstock for biofuels.

D1 Oils: D1 Oils Plant Science manager says J-root planting problems key cause of low jatropha yields. 

The Blunder Crop: a Biofuels Digest special report on jatropha biofuels development: Kirk Haney tells me there’s nothing to worry about with his jatropha biofuels company, SG Biofuels, and I believe him. A successful practioner of sustainable forestry in Central America via the teak trade, Haney has assembled a top-tier team for SG and is doing the soil testing and the extensive planning — the “hard, dirty work of progress”, to borrow Rob Elam’s memorable phrase — that will turn jatropha dreams into actual viable industry.

India: The Chhattisgarh state minister for forests said that the planting of 100 million jatropha saplings on 40,000 hectares throughout the state has been completed. The state spent $15.1 million on the project, which will ultimately plant 1 million hectares of fallow land with jatropha by 2012, and create 1.43 billion in revenue from the sale of biodiesel.

Boeing: Jatropha, algae, camelina and halophytes are the feedstocks of choice for aviation

China, Zambia: In South Africa, the Biofuels Association of Zambia announced at 4th African Biofuels that China has proposed the cultivation of 2 million hectares of jatropha on Zambian farmland, while Mozambique released a draft national biofuels strategy.

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