Published: 02 May 2018

Government is looking at reviving the Mt Hampden bio diesel plant–about 18 kilometres north of Harare initially established to process jatropha seed.

However, this time it will process different types of feedstock, Higher Education, Science and Technology Development, Professor Amon Murwira has said.

The bio-diesel plant, built nearly a decade ago has never operated on a commercial basis due to inadequate supplies of jatropha seed and a general level of ignorance of the fundamental requirements of any larger scale agricultural or horticultural production.

Jatropha (Jatropha curcas) originates in Central America but was planted on large scale in the Cape Verde Islands before 1900, and was reportedly being grown there as early as 1836.
- Business Weekly

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