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Company creates biofuel from castor

Invest U.S. $ 320 million in plant cultivation
Written by: ADALBERTO DE LA ROSA ( a.rosa @ hoy.com.do )

The Dominican company Biofuel and Technology, together with a French investor will invest 320 million dollars in a biofuel plant in Montecristi that benefit thousands of farmers.

Claudio Dal Boni, president of the company, said it intends to produce three million liters of biofuel feedstock using the castor.

He explained that this year will be installed the first plant that will produce vegetable oil and biodiesel.

He argued that bioethanol produced three million every month, 90 tons of yeast per month and 15 million gallons of biodiesel and the same amount of vegetable oil.

Yesterday, the French investor, Charles Gregoire de Rothschild and Italian Claudio Dal Boni and Dominican-French advisor, Jean Pierre Jabouina met with Vice President Rafael Alburquerque who explained the project.

Dal Boni said to be cultivated about 2,500 hectares of castor.

"It is industrial exploitation, on the contrary, farmers will have good incomes by growing the castor and we are going to buy all the seeds we need to extract vegetable oil," he said.

It was explained that the project includes the construction of housing for farmers engaged in castor.