Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Peter Crisp <peter.crisp@adelaide.edu.au>]

With  Bio-fuels BP is looking at a plant called JAtropha in India as a source
of Diesel replacement. This plant is a native of Mexico and grows in otherwise
non-arable lands, live for 50 years and inprove the soil and are not
susceptible to many pests and diseases.. It reads like a perfect weed but 
there
is more than one way to produce Bio-fuels and not all are as offensive of 
using
food crops and good land for probably energy negative crops.

Pete C


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Dr Peter Crisp
South Australian Research and Development Institiute
Entomology Unit
PMB 1
Glen Osmond
South Australia
5064
Ph +61 8 8303 6869
fax +61 8 8303 7109