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Crops in Botswana grow gradually due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the accomplishment of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the nation has an of wild plants that can withstand dryness and winter season cold. It also has big numbers of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have abundant quantities of an oil considered to hold great guarantee as a biofuel. The objective of this task is to utilize these resources to establish Jatropha varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and offer high performance, along with to establish methods of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological technique will help to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based on the country's own biological resources A database of biological resource information associating with jatropha curcas will be built and ideal ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this dry region that goes through cold weather condition, efforts will be made to establish a growing system that is versatile with respect to climate change. The job will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production model using plant genetic resources that are indigenous to Botswana.