Experts from multinational seed company Monsanto will be in the Isle of Man next month hoping to show how farmers can produce rapeseed oil.
The crop can be used as a renewable biofuel instead of fossil fuels, and a company that already produces fuel from waste vegetable oil in the Island has invited the men to meet farmers.
But Manx Radio farming correspondent John Kennaugh (pictured) says there may be problems convincing farmers to give up crops for rapeseed.
He says growing 2,000 acres of rapeseed to supply the Island’s cars with fuel for a year could meet resistance from the agricultural community:
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