Anthony Nwakaegho/NaijaAgroNet
The Biotop Green Oils and Energy
Limited are partnering the University of Ilorin to explore fully the commercial
potential of the Jatropha plant which is set to turn investors into
multi-millionaires.
The partnership is coming on the
heels of the just concluded third conference organised by the Jatropha
Plantation and Development Maintenance Committee of the University of Ilorin
with the theme “Breaking down barriers and advancing into new realms of
Jatropha – the humble plant.”
NaijaAgroNet gathered that one of
the most remarkable uses of Jatropha is the production of the bio-fuel on
commercial scale and also in use to powering generators and stoves for cooking.
The Chairman/Chief Executive
Officer of Biotop, Olajiga Temitope said the company working hard on the other
commercial uses of Jatropha by introducing distributors of bio-fuel in many
place and trying to co-opt users of cooking stove as distributors of the
product.
Speaking at the occasion, the
Chairman of the local organising committee of the international conference and
a Professor of animal production at the university Moshood Yinka Belewu said
that Jatropha seed cake is relatively cheap and can be mixed with energy
sources such as maize to compound livestock feeds.
Belewu explained that the juice
from the Jatropha leaves can be used in the treatment and prevention of many
ailments, while the stem can be cut and used as a chewing stick to cure
bleeding gums and smelling mouth.
He disclosed that the university
has produced ceiling boards that are better than Asbestos from Jatropha and is
currently working in the lab to produce toothpaste from the plant which is capable
of turning prospective investors into multi-millionaires.
A Jatropha farmer in Minna, Niger
State, Garba Attahiru, said that selling the Jatropha harvests to the
processing company has boosted his income appreciably more than the farmers
that engage in the cultivation of other crops.
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