Agrarian Economy 2018 Т. 11 № 1-2:131-140

Biofuel production a factor of enhancing of ecological and economic efficiency of restoration and usage of damaged territory

G. Cherevko, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor
V. Shuhalo, post-graduate student
Lviv National Agrarian University

https://doi.org/10.31734/agrarecon2018.01.131

ANNOTATION

The article substantiates the ecological and economic efficiency of cultivating energy crops for production of biogas in damaged areas. It also describes conditions of areas that are most affected by radioactive contamination after the Chernobyl disaster and problems encountered in contaminated areas and present possibilities how to solve them. The results of researches of Ukrainian scientists concerning influence of fertilization, their composition and other factors on accumulation of radionuclides in plants have been presented herein. The main elements of the intensive technology of rapeseed growth in radioactive contaminated territories have been listed. The article determines parameters of satisfactory conditions for rapeseed growth and doses of mineral fertilizers for planned crop. The possibilities of miskanthus growth in small individual farms and in the agro-industrial scale have been analyzed, too. The phenomenon of increasing areas of minerals extraction, both open and closed as well as consequences, which lead to the abandonment of the periphery of such territories, have been discussed. An option of the solution has been found and presented to investors who can put money into the projects of biological remediation of the territories after the mining there and the territories that have been in the zone of radiation pollution and are not very attractive in terms of ecological and economic efficiency. The experience of remediation of damaged land in Ukraine as well as implemented projects and opportunities for preventing “lost profits” have been generalized. The possibilities for rational usage of territories and its effective remediation have been summarized. The optimization of the composition of plants for biological remediation of damaged areas has been described.

KEY WORDS

bioenergy, biofuel, radionuclides, biomass, biogas, biofertilizer, rapeseed, energy independence, ecological and economic efficiency

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