The Group Chief Executive Officer of Bionass worldwide, Ms Zurina Amnan stated this in Abuja over the weekend while briefing newsmen on the benefits of Jatropha Value Chain.
The firm, which is partnering with the federal government through the Ministry of Environment to drive the Jatropha Value Chain, is active in 52 countries.
Amnan who is also the Secretary of Malaysia member committee of the World Energy Council said that Bionass kicked off investment in Nigeria’s waste-to-energy since this year.
She noted that Bionass is in Nigeria to offer technology transfer to Nigerians through train-the-trainers programme which she believed would produce competent professionals that would handle the Jatropha value chain.
She said: “We want to produce 200, 000 professional engineers that will implement the programme in other African countries because they will be sent as expatriates to those countries.”
Amnan revealed that their products cut across shipping, transport, aviation among others, stressing that Jatropha factory, machineries and processing machines which are already in Zaria would be installed before the end of this month.
Amnan stated that for effective Jatropha plantation programme, Bionass needed to install the machines to boost farmers confidence.
