GROWING ENERGY CROPS ON LANDS DISTURBED BY AMBER MINING

Abstract

The exhaustion of traditional energy carriers and the increase in the cost of energy resources have a negative impact on the formation of the cost of agricultural and industrial products, and reduce their competitiveness at the world level. Therefore, the main task of the state is to ensure the efficient use of its own fuel and energy base and to diversify the sources and routes of energy supplies. One of the promising ways to solve the issue of energy supply is the use of renewable energy sources. Energy crops are special plants that are specially grown for use as biofuel or for further energy production. These include, in particular, fast-growing trees (plantations of various types of willow and poplar, paulownia) or other plant species (sorghum, miscanthus). Ukraine has all the conditions for the widespread introduction and use of the latest technologies for growing and processing biomass of energy crops. The development of bioenergy technologies will reduce the problem of supplying the country with energy resources, improve the ecological state in the regions, and contribute to the employment of the local population. This will turn the agricultural sector from an energy consumer into a direct energy producer. Bioenergy is becoming a promising area of agricultural production. In terms of the safety of growing crops, plantations of energy plants are ideal for planting on radioactively contaminated, unproductive and disturbed lands, are effectively used in anti-erosion measures to strengthen soils, enrich them with macro- and microelements, nutrients of natural origin. Energy plants are natural filters for soil purification. The production and processing of crops (miscanthus, sylphs, sverbig, sits down, sorghum, etc.) makes it possible to solve not only the problematic issues of rehabilitating contaminated areas, ensuring efficient agricultural production, improving soil performance, but also solving a number of other important tasks, in particular , will contribute to the attraction of investment resources necessary for the development of the territory, will ensure a change in the attitude towards radioactively contaminated territories as unpromising, and will show by a real example the possibility of their effective development.