A CULTURA DO PINHÃO-MANSO (JATROPHA CURCAS L.): USO PARA FINS COMBUSTÍVEIS E DESCRIÇÃO AGRONÔMICA

Abstract

The incentive to the use of renewable energies, especially biofuels,
replacing the fossil originated ones, became an alternative in application to
global warming. Thus, among these distinguishes the biodiesel, mainly from
the Jatropha curcas L. The objective of this assay is to present studies about
the use of this specie for fuel making, besides agronomical studies made
until this moment in view of discuss and confront them. To remark, the
information about the cultivation is, in general, deficient and conflictive, on the productive, economical, social, political, environmental and energetic
levels. However, their sustainability is still not verified, and the research
about the subject is eminent, not only in Brazil but also in other countries.