Chevron to finance UC-Davis test of jatropha cultivation in California’s Imperial Valley

In California, the University of California, Davis has commenced a pilot project to determine opportunities for cultivating jatropha in Southern California. Seeds from India for the drought-tolerant plant will be tested at the UC Desert Research and Extension Center in Holtville, in a trial financed by Chevron.

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