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Inter Press Service: With a gas-guzzler of an economy, India had been spending tens of billions of dollars annually to import petroleum. And so its 2009 policy on biofuels mandated that by 2017, India would have enough biofuel production to cover at least 20 percent of the country's oil consumption. The government has in fact been encouraging the cultivation of jatropha curcas for the past seven years, believing that would be the fastest way to have the volume of biofuel the country would need – 13 ......
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India: Jatropha Boom Yields Tough Lessons
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 20th, 2010
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