Myanmar aims to substitute oil imports with nuts

Myanmar hopes to replace all of its 40,000 barrels per day conventional oil product imports with a homegrown nut oil within a few years.

“We’ve started from this year and within 3 years if we can grow it all over the country we expect we can maintain this level of demand,” U Myint Oo, chief research officer for state firm Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, told Reuters.

He said that the potential biofuel was known locally as the “physic nut”, and was similar to the jatropha plant.
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