Tanzania: Expert Faults Commercial Jatropha Investments

JATROPHA should not replace any crops in arable farms and instead should be cultivated by smallholder farmers as hedges for farms, an expert has warned.

Pamoja Inc Co-Director Jonathan Otto said in Dar es Salaam recently that jatropha as a source of energy for communities is receiving bad media publicity because of large scale commercial investors who are driving farmers off arable land to cultivate the biofuel plant.

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