Myanmar considers biodiesel

Myanmar is making efforts to replace fossil-based fuel with biodiesel, expecting that by 2008, the country could start to replace fuel with biodiesel, said a report of the local Pyi Myanmar news journal. To meet the goal, Myanmar is growing physic nut plantations extensively throughout the country, Minister of Commerce Brigadier-General Tin Naing Thein was quoted as saying, as well as jatropha. (March 7, 2007)