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Information about biofuels and bioenergy in Myanmar/Burma. (Note: Myanmar, officially the Union of Myanmar, is also known as Burma or the Union of Burma. For more information see Wikipedia.)
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Events
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Issues/Policies
- Burma has announced a plan to replace all of its 40,000 barrels per day of conventional oil imports with a homegrown nut oil (jatropha curcas).
- Although official statistics are difficult to come by, the plan seems to involve the following:
- to grow 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres) of jatropha curcas within three years, on centrally planned plantations;
- to grow jatropha curcas on all major military batallion sites, with the resulting biodiesel to be used by the military;
- to encourage individual rural villages to create protective hedges around their fields, using jatropha (as the plant is poisonous, it fends off grazing animals that may damage crops - it makes a good shrub for natural hedges); and
- to involve so-called 'social issue groups' in 'planting campaigns'.
- Burma has a record of using force labor and there are reports that farmers are being forced to plant jatropha, and even pay for the seeds themselves1.
- According to biopact.com 'social issue groups' are reminiscent of the soviet 'sovchoz' and have been used in the past by the regime as a means to exploit forced labor.)
- According to some reports[1], as much as 7,000,000 acres is to be converted to jatropha production.
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News
- CASP agreement to benefit biofuel producers in Mekong, 11 April 2007 from Biofuel Review. Agriculture ministers from 6 countries, Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, have endorsed the Core Agricultural Support Program, which will work toward increasing trade and investment in agriculture in the Greater Mekong Subregion. A major focus will be helping farmers reap the benefits of new energy crops and related technologies.
- Yoma to venture into bio-diesel in Myanmar, 31 October 2006 from the The Business Times Singapore. "Property developer Yoma Strategic Holdings - which recently became the first Myanmar play on the Singapore Exchange - already has plans to go into the bio-diesel industry in Myanmar. Mr Pun said that Yoma hopes to venture into the upstream part of bio-fuel production by developing a jatropha curcas plantation in Myanmar."
- Myanmar leapfrogs to oil independence through biofuels program - questions about human rights remain, 13 August 2006 from Biopact.
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Organizations
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Regional organizations
- Core Agriculture Support Program - A program that includes southern China and the countries of the Mekong Subregion in South-East Asia, that provides support for biofuel feedstock and other agricultural programs.
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Reports
- Biofuel by Decree (PDF file) -- Report by the Ethnic Community Development Forum (ECDF); addresses the national jatropha planting program and related issues of "forced labor, land confiscation, loss of income and food insecurity."[2]
- Biodiesel in Burma: A friendly alternative? - from Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.). Describes government plans for jatropha cultivation and associated controversies.
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