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Experts attend meet on bio-fuel

JAIPUR: Experts attending a zonal consultation on bio-fuel for semi-arid eastern plains of Rajasthan here over the week-end called for evolving a balance between the commercial production of bio-fuel bearing plants such as jatropha and the use of common land, crucial for the rural poor, for their cultivation.

The consultation – the first in a series of dialogues to be organised for all agro-climatic zones of the State – was held for Ajmer, Dausa, Tonk and Jaipur districts, from where about 50 farmers, grassroots activists, scientists and representatives of NGOs took part in the day-long event.

Jaipur-based Centre for Community Economics and Development Consultants’ Society organised the consultation in association with the Institute of Development Studies. Its outcome will be shared with the State Government’s Bio-fuel Authority. Shikha Roy of Rajasthan University, who has been conducting research on jatropha, threw light on technical aspects of the bio-fuel bearing plant, which is considered a drought-resistant species with high oil contents. She said jatropha could be grown as a fence along the boundaries of agricultural fields.

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