Walewale, (N/R), Oct. 7, GNA – The European Union has launched a two million- Euro Jatropha project in Walewale in the West Mamprusi District aimed at increasing the energy demand of the country through the production of bio-energy. The project which has five-year duration would use unfertile lands in the area for the cultivation of the jatropha plant and process the seeds to obtain crude oil and its by-products. Professor Giuseppe Enne, Project Co-ordinator of the Ghana Jatropha Project and of the Nuclea Ricerca Desertificatione of Sassari University of Italy, said the project would develop and construct an appropriate and cost-effective expeller for Jatropha oil extraction.
Source: GhanaWeb
