A newly developed technology for easy de-husking and oil extraction from oilseeds has increased local community participation in Hassan district of Karnataka bringing in not just monetary benefits, ...

Demand for plant-based proteins and oils is increasing steadily, while the arable land available to grow them is constrained. But what if you could grow something like soy – but with a far higher ...

A demonstration project to grow pongamia on old Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. land in the Maalaea/north Kihei area could get underway in mid-May, an Alexander & Baldwin official said. The tree from ...

Decreasing the fossil fuel consumption and reconciling the worsening global environmental conditions are fundamental concerns of the society in this industrial era. The development and use of ...

TerViva – a California-based firm seeking to commercialize ingredients from low-input, high-yielding Pongamia trees – aims to have commercial quantities of 'golden buttery' oil available by mid-2022, ...

Pongamia is a fast-growing, wide-canopied tree species native to much of Asia and the Pacific. Able to thrive in harsh places where other plants would not survive, the pongamia tree is becoming a ...