We have covered already what jatropha is: a promising crop which can be cultivated on barren land that does not compete with food production and from which you can obtain oil (with a quality similar ...

Jatropha curcas is a perennial woody plant species of the Euphorbiaceae family. This drought-resistant shrub is widely ...

Renewable energy, it turns out, does grow on trees. The fruit pods plucked from jatropha trees have seeds that produce clean-burning diesel fuel. But unlike corn and other biofuel sources, the ...

MIDRAND, South Africa (Reuters) - Jatropha, often hailed as rich source of biodiesel that flourishes in semi-arid areas of Africa, is hard to grow and often fails if farmers lack expertise, an ...

The seeds from Jatropha fruit, which grows wild in central India, contain a liquid that can be made into biodiesel. Both private companies and India's government are now competing to buy these seeds, ...

AMSTERDAM, Nov 6 (Reuters) - BP Plc is focusing on developing jatropha and butanol for sustainable biofuel output, its head of biofuels said on Tuesday, as the industry faces mounting pressure for its ...

Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant ...