Original report from Kampong Speu
24 February 2010
In a small factory in Kampong Speu province, some 30 kilometers south of Phnom Penh, hundreds of barrels of jatropha oil are ready to be turned into bio-diesel. Elliptical-shaped machines prepare to refine the raw jatropha oil.
Since mid-October, 2009, a joint venture company between Cambodia and Japana, NCT Jacam Energy, has been producing bio-diesel from jatropha, a hardy plant that grows on marginal land. The company is ready to expand.
“Now we produce 100 liters of bio-diesel from jatropha grain each day,” Mitagi Masaru, executive director for the company, told VOA Khmer. “Starting from early March, we will increase our production to 500 liters per day. So in total we will produce 600 liters of bio-diesel per day.”
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