Bosques Energeticos boosts landholdings for jatropha production

In Mexico, Bosques Energeticos EBE S.A. de C.V. has secured 7 more hectares on top of the current 11 hectares it already has in Morelos state to plant its G4J cultivar of jatropha. The cultivar is bred to be early, high-yielding and non-toxic. The company has a total of 28,000 jatropha trees in the ground, half of which are G4J, and 16,000 pongamia trees along with 3,000 castor plants.