"Produção de Biocombustíveis em Moçambique" (Production of biofuel in Mozambique),
Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry, Eduardo Mondlane University
• Task
• Submit paper and present orally on the research undertaken under the FACT/ADPP Jatropha
project in Cabo Delgado
14 to 25 September
Course on Jatropha production, Bilibiza, Cabo Delgado.
• Tasks:
• Teach and make training material for the course.
11 to 25 September
A number of research tasks were planned too.
• Tasks:
• Follow up on trials, including inspection and weighing of harvested seeds.
• Obtain rainfall data from the meteorological station, Bilibiza.
• Forecast Jatropha production for 10 years.
• Forecast transport needs for collecting Jatropha seeds from the project area.
• Interview farmers about labour allocation during the rainy season.
28 September til 1 October
• Task
• Submit paper and present orally on the viability of using Jatropha for local development based
on the experience from the FACT/ADPP Jatropha project in Cabo Delgado
Seminar: Production of biofuel in Mozambique
The seminar brought together various actors in biofuels in Mozambique but with a overweight of
representatives from GALP Energy and Wageningen University. The national agricultural research
system, IIAM, had very little to present. A field-trip to the Energem Jatropha project in Bilene was
included in the program.
It was apparent that the FACT/ADPP project is relatively advanced compared to other projects in
Mozambique but that the extensive research programs undertaken by commercial operators like
GALP and Energem will soon be dwarfing the FACT/ADPP projects effort. However, the
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