Residents urged to grow oil-rich plants

NORTHERN PROVINCE BURERA — Dr. J Baptista Nduwayezu, the Director of Institute of Research Science and Technology, IRST has urged residents of Burera district to cultivate oil rich plants because they are more marketable. Residents were asked to cultivate plants like moringa, soya beans and palm trees whose oil can be easily transformed into diesel oil. Nduwayezu said the move would check the escalating oil prices and prevent environmental pollution caused by other types of fuel. Dr. Nduwayezu and a team of other IRST researchers were addressing teachers and residents at a function to introduce newly-innovated technology that can be practised in the rural community. Addressing over 600 teachers, Dr. Nduwayeze disclosed that machines to process over 2000 litres of diesel oil from plants had been imported from Sweden. He explained that a team of four people had been sent to Sweden to learn the operation of the imported machines. An engine generator using the fuel produced from the plants was lit. Ends