‘Farmers can realize over N2.
5bn from planting Jatropha plant’
Written by Administrator
Monday, 31 October 2011 16:49
How would you describe Jatropha plant to a layman understanding?
Jatropha plant is a plant found in the...
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‘Farmers can realize over N2.
5bn from planting Jatropha plant’
Written by Administrator
Monday, 31 October 2011 16:49
How would you describe Jatropha plant to a layman understanding?
Jatropha plant is a plant found in the arid zone of Nigeria.
It’s a plant recognised by the United
Nations Desertification Control as an intermediate solution to control desertification and above
all, it’s also a plant using seeds and its oil can be refined into bio-diesel that is a renewable
diesel.
These are the two important aspects of the plant.
Why should government or farmers invest in Jatropha as a business?
First of all, if we want to mitigate the effect climate change we have to set up carbon-dioxide
first, secondly to go into production of bio-fuel then thirdly, to reclaim degraded lands or to
re-fertilize degraded land.
So, as far as I am concerned, as a farmer, we are not interested really in life scale intensive
farming plantation of here but rather w
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