Biofuel Planting Coming to Yucatan
Global Clean Energy Holdings, through GCE Mexico, has obtained 5,000 acres in the State of Yucatan on which it plans to plant Jatropha curcas trees. The 4 million trees they plant will produce high quality seed oil (for biodiesel fuel) and biomass for more than 30 years. The Jatropha tree requires less water than food crops and can be grown on land that is unsuitable for agricultural planting. The appropriation of agricultural land for fuel production has long been at the center of the controversy surrounding such products as ethonol. If land that is unsuitable for agricultural production can be used to produce biofuel, this may not only help the fuel situation but the reforestation efforts in areas in which the plantings take place. We will be interested to watch and learn as this development takes place.)

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