Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the accomplishment of a low carbon society based upon bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can stand up to dryness and winter cold. It also has big numbers of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have of an oil thought about to hold terrific guarantee as a biofuel. The goal of this task is to make use of these resources to develop jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and winter and offer high performance, in addition to to develop approaches of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological method will help to accomplish a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based on the nation’s own biological resources A database of biological resource information relating to Jatropha will be constructed and appropriate ranges will be established. Moreover, in this dry area that goes through cold weather condition, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is flexible with respect to climate change. The task will work to build a sustainable bioenergy production design using plant genetic resources that are indigenous to Botswana.