Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the achievement of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can withstand dryness and winter cold. It also has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant quantities of an oil thought about to hold great pledge as a biofuel. The objective of this job is to utilize these to establish jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and offer high efficiency, as well as to establish approaches of cultivating these ranges. In this method, a biological method will assist to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based on the nation’s own biological resources A database of biological resource information relating to jatropha curcas will be constructed and suitable varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this arid region that goes through cold weather condition, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with regard to environment modification. The project will work to build a sustainable bioenergy production model utilizing plant genetic resources that are indigenous to Botswana.