Jatropha Plantations in France

Jatropha is a word I have never noticed hearing before today, when a client asked about buying 50 hectares of land here in Languedoc to grow it as a crop for bio-diesel production.

A quick read through some Google searches seems to indicate the Mediterranean climate may – or may not be suitable for Jatropha Curcas but I am not sure that replacing vines with a poisonous shrub in the South of France is a good idea – does anyone know anything about this ?

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Blogging about life in France since 1997 and running vacation apartments and BandB in the south of France keeps me busy (and poor)
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