Jatropha for biofuel to be grown in Morocco

An Italian bioenergy consultancy company, Agroils, who is cultivating 10,000 hectares of jatropha in Ghana for the production of biofuels, have announced that they will be looking to expand their test crop in Morocco. According to a number of reports, Agroils is also investing in the cultivation of jatropha in four African countries - Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Cameroon. Agroils’ Business Development Manager, Giovanni Venturini Del Greco, said at an energy conference last week, that the company aims at producing 100,000 tonnes of biofuel from the jatropha plant in 2018 in these countries where it works with local farmers. The project in Morocco is small at the moment - some 200-hectares - in a desert in Morocco The company started the cultivation in 2008, the report said.