Ruanda: Mudando para biodiesel

(Notícia em Inglês)
To reduce energy dependency on wood and oil, Rwanda is embarking on the production of fuels derived from plants such as “moringa”, “jatropha” or “palm oil”: this is the objective of the Government of Rwanda. The first factory began producing biodiesel and bio-ethanol. The Rwandan Minister of Education, Charles Murigande, has confirmed that his duty vehicle is using bioiesel for four months now.

This plant will produce also biodiesel from palm oil coming in complement, from Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi, the General Director of the Rwandan Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (RIST) said.

Thus, the RIST agents crisscross the country to inform local authorities, the public and the private sector on the benefits of farming biodiesel crops, such as soybean, “jatropha” and “moringa” plants, to reduce the cost of petroleum products, affecting the citizens’ daily life in the urban as well as in the rural who must buy imported kerosene to light their houses, NDUWAYEZU said to convince people. The residents of Kivu province, in the south, seem to be convinced.

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