US Government supports Tanzanian jatropha with $6.5 million grant

In Tanzania, the US Government has granted $5.4 million to the Tanzanian government for a project to establish a model for jatropha farming in the country. The grant was provided under the Jatropha agriculture and nutrition initiative (JANI) project of the US development agency, USAID.

The project will cover 6800 farmers, initially in the Kilimanjaro, Arusha and Singida regions and the Kondoa district in Dodoma region, and later expanding to Tabora, Mara, Shinyanga, Mwanza and Kagera by 2012.

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