{"id":2106,"date":"2011-05-20T11:31:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T11:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2011-05-20T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T11:31:57","slug":"bio-energy-resources-of-malawi-planning-18m-jatropha-biodiesel-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/20\/bio-energy-resources-of-malawi-planning-18m-jatropha-biodiesel-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio Energy Resources of Malawi planning $18M jatropha biodiesel plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2149\" title=\"Logg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Logg.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"60\" \/>In Malawi, Bio Energy Resources of Malawi is planning an $18 million facility to convert jatropha seeds to biodiesel.\u00a0 Lourie  Webb, CEO of Bio Energy states that his company will start trial runs  prior to commercial production in 2016.\u00a0 Webb is quoted as having  stating that Bio Energy has 30,000 farmers to grow jatropha.\u00a0 There is  no further information regarding the facility capacity or acreage of  jatropha plantings anticipated.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Open Web Site\" rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.berl.biz\/\">Bio Energy Resources Ltd.<\/a> of Malawi plans to build an $18 million plant to produce bio-fuels from jatropha seeds, the <a title=\"Open Web Site\" rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bnltimes.com\/\">Daily Times<\/a> reported, citing Chief Executive Officer Lourie Webb.<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to start trial output in the final quarter of the year before commercial production starts in 2016, the Blantyre-based newspaper said, citing Webb. Bio Energy has signed up 30,000 farmers to grow jatropha around the southern African nation, the Times said.<\/p>\n<p>Seed harvested from jatropha trees yields oil that can be used in the manufacture of biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p>Bio Energy Resources Ltd. (BERL) is a Malawian company that was  established in 2006 with the sole purpose of developing bio-energy production on  a commercial basis within<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berl.biz\/images\/Car.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"20\" width=\"244\" height=\"139\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span> a sustainable framework. BERL is promoting planting of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berl.biz\/moreHow.html\"> <\/a><span style=\"color: #a1ba2e;\">Jatropha curcas<\/span><\/em> as feed stock  for the production of biofuel. Production of Jatropha is through  contract growing with smallholder farmers and commercial growers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Malawi, Bio Energy Resources of Malawi is planning an $18 million facility to convert jatropha seeds to biodiesel.\u00a0 Lourie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[565,560,566],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change-and-the-environment","tag-bio","tag-energy","tag-millions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}