Govt to procure 5m litre biodiesel plant

According to the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, the processing plant will initially be fired with meat tallow as opposed to jatropha. Meat tallow is made up of fatty offcuts from slaughtered animals while jatropha is a plant widely used for biodiesel production.

Although the costs of the proposed plant were not immediately available, Zimbabwe installed a 100-million litre per annum biodiesel plant in 2007 for US$12 million (P81.6 million at current rates).