Green Fuels and INOCASs team on macaúba project in Minas Gerais

In Brazil, Green Fuels and INOCAS announced an agreement to engage in the development of a sustainable fuels value chain in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Using macaúba in novel intercropping and agrosilvopastoral techniques, the partners intend to ensure future sustainable fuel production for distributed energy and land, marine and air transport sectors, as signatories of the Zona da Mata Biokerosene and Renewables Platform (an integrated biofuels and reforestation value chain promoted by the City of Juiz de Fora).

Green Fuels is establishing a biofuel production plant in the Zona da Mata, with the support of the UK Government Prosperity Fund. The agreement will provide saplings of macaúba and other native species, acquired from the nursery Viveiro Nativo, to INOCAS to establish Technical Demonstration Units (TDUs) in the Zona da Mata and Cerrado (savanna) biomes. It is expected that the program will directly benefit around 100 small family farmers and the entire rural value chain.