The seeds that he is starting with are Jatropha seeds, which he sourced on eBay from outside the country. He lists the reasons that he chose that plant over other options, so check it out if you ...

The government is looking into diverting money from diesel subsidies into four biodiesel production plants and possibly making biodiesel from the seed of the jatropha tree. Oil from the seeds was ...

New York: A U.S. company is eyeing countries such as India and Brazil to grow seeds of jatropha - the inedible, drought-resistant plant - to produce high-quality oil that can be refined into ...

Bengaluru: After a group of five women and eight children were hospitalised from eating Jatropha curcas seeds in Chamarajanagar district last week, the food safety commissionerate has cautioned ...

The children fell sick after eating poisonous seeds of the Ratanjot baghandi plant. The kids mistook the seeds for almonds. The incident was reported from the Triveniganj police station area of ...

I was wrong. Nothing came my way and I didn't know where to take the seeds," Mr Makau tells Smart Harvest. But if the latest clamour to promote the use of jatropha through research, outreaches and ...

Producing high-grade fuels from a variety of oils, and finding uses for byproducts A newly developed co-solvent process to manufacture high-grade biodiesel(BDF) from a variety of oils- Jatropha oil, ...